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| Date: | 10 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 13 superintendents of state welfare institutions with A.W. Bayley (extreme right, standing), director of the Wisconsin Deptartment of Pub... |
| Date: | 12 02 1945 |
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| Description: | June Dieckman, police reporter for the "Wisconsin State Journal," shown examining a hole in a ventilating pipe cut by two federal prisoners attempting to e... |
| Read about the Home for Women, a reformatory for women aged 18 -31, and the State Prison for Women, which became the Taycheedah Correctional Institution. |
| Read about the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun, which opened in 1851 and housed men and women prisoners. |
| Read about the Milwaukee Industrial School reform school, later the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls and Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon |
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