{"id":1,"date":"2018-04-03T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:50:46","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/2018\/04\/03\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Lancaster-school-for-girls-clipping-picture-only-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Lancaster-school-for-girls-clipping-picture-only-1-1024x379.jpg\" alt=\"Newspaper sketch of people, horse-drawn buggies, and Lancaster's buildings.\" width=\"768\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Lancaster-school-for-girls-clipping-picture-only-1-1024x379.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Lancaster-school-for-girls-clipping-picture-only-1-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Lancaster-school-for-girls-clipping-picture-only-1-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Lancaster-school-for-girls-clipping-picture-only-1-260x96.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lancaster Industrial School for Girls, drawn above for a newspaper article about its opening, was the first state-sanctioned reformatory for girls in the United States. It represented the start of a widespread movement in the Northeast and Midwest in which young girls and women (up to ~25 years old) were recommended by courts for rehabilitation at these single-sex institutions that were thought to be better suited for the &#8220;fairer sex.&#8221; Reformatories like Lancaster were deliberately located in the countryside due to the growing association between cities, crime, and vice. As a result, the rural was romanticized as the ideological opposite of the city: pure, clean, and restful. Removal from the city also effectively isolated youth from people they knew &#8211;oftentimes thought of as the &#8220;corrupting&#8221; forces in their lives&#8211; and making it more difficult to potentially run away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What story does this image tell?<\/p>\n<p>Who is pictured here and what do you think their relationship to the school is?<\/p>\n<p>Who\u00a0<em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> pictured here and why do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancaster Industrial School for Girls, drawn above for a newspaper article about its opening, was the first state-sanctioned reformatory for girls in the United States. 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