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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 246 Print image (64K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 246 Print image (64K) |
| 16 REPORT WITH RECOMMENDATIONS OF V. PUBLIC WELFARE, CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS The House of Reformation at Cheltenham, Prince George's County, has 1,200 acres of fine farmland, more than one-half of which is in timber, and about 500 acres under cultivation. A splendid group of buildings has been erected and approximately 300 boys are committed to the institution. To maintain the institution, $47,000 is received from the State and Baltimore City. One hundred and fifty dollars per capita, per year, seems to be insufficient to provide for the housing and feeding of these boys and their education and training. This financial problem has forced the management to resort to measures that have not.been in the best interests of the boys. These measures are: What is known as "paroled to service" is the apprenticing of boys from this institution in private homes until they are twenty-one years of age, with no definite requirements for any education whatever. If the private family is willing to keep him, the boy is held to the service until-his majority. This has probably furnished splendid home-training in some cases, but the danger is that boys who could best afford to leave the institution will be retained until they are grown because of their satisfactory service. It appears that when once apprenticed, the boy cannot shorten his term of service. The worst feature of this institution is that of hiring boys to contractors, a practice that has grown up, we are told, since the world war. Under this practice, contractors pay the institution 60 cents a day for the boys, who leave the institution on Monday morning, in most cases, and do not return until Saturday night. They are thus removed entirely from |