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1. Annual Report, Glen Lake Farm School for Boys
- Creator:
- Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
- Date Created:
- 1911-12-31
- Description:
- In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers; inception; financial support; officers and employees; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; work descriptions; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Reports
2. Annual Report, Glen Lake Farm School for Boys
- Creator:
- Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
- Date Created:
- 1912
- Description:
- In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers (including photos); maintenance; expenditures; roll of admission/release; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; dining room; government; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; letters; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds and of boys at work/play.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Reports
3. The Juvenile Court of Hennepin County, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Hennepin County Probation Office; Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home; Research Department, Juvenile Court
- Date Created:
- 1914
- Description:
- Annual Reports of three entities: Report 1 Glen Lake Farm School for Boys, including: duties of probation officers; medical inspection staff; tables of delinquent cases during the year, recapitulation, and new cases; map; board of managers; staff. Report 2 Hennepin County Probation Office, including financial appropriation, disbursements, farm structure, crops, and stock; improvements made; photos of grounds and of boys at work/play; roster of admissions with costs; ages and mental classification of boys; demographics of parents; school and work assignments; employees' pay; government (Boys' Council); effects of medical treatment and partnership with St. Barnabas Hospital; farm placements for boys with anecdotes; Rev. James Parsons (Society for the Friendless); Christmas (via the Elks Lodge); Minneapolis Needlework Guild provisions. Report 3 Director of Research Department, including data gathered: description of medical exams, home environment, pedagogical, moral, and psychological factors; descriptions of staff; results of efforts; table of remedial work done in previous two years. Appendix: memo with suggestions of application of Aid to Mothers with Dependent Children to exceptional cases. Also, general information: organization of the court; cost of juvenile court work; statistics detailing apparent decrease in delinquency; summary of Glen Lake Farm School performance; need for a detention home for girls; summary of Research Department; mentally "defective" delinquents; language of county aid to Mothers of Dependent Children (Chapter 130, Laws 1913);
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Reports
4. The Juvenile Court of Hennepin County, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Hennepin County Probation Office; Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home; Court Physician and Surgeon
- Date Created:
- 1914
- Description:
- Annual Reports of three entities: Report 1 Probation Office of Hennepin County, including: roster of probation officers; photos of boys at work/play; tables of delinquent cases during the year, recapitulation since 1905, new cases and complaints, county aid recipients, repeat offenders, schools attended (and names of those unschooled), grades, delinquency status of family members, street occupations, nativity, home environment, probation, and sentences; appendix: tables (eight unpublished tables from the 1914 report) of delinquent cases, new cases, offenses of those in detention, dependents, parental delinquency/marital status/involvement and home environment; adult probation; sentences. Report 2 Glen Lake Farm School for Boys, including: taxes and expenditures; farm environment, crops, and stock; ages and status (delinquent/dependent) of boys; education; improved medical treatment; government; causes of delinquency; country home placement; "Play Night"; holidays; hospital services; Minneapolis Needlework Guild. Report 3 Remedial Work Done in Juvenile Court by the Protective League, including: organizational structure; medical staff; remedial work summary; background and attitude of children and parents; medical concerns and a table detailing treatments. Also, general information: reports description and justification; cost; decline in juvenile delinquency; Glen Lake improvements; authorization of girls' detention home; mental and physical remediation; county Aid to Mothers of Dependant Children advisory committee; delinquent parents; neglected children.
- Contributing Institution:
- Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- Reports
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