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member of the Sanitary Commission, and after the war 
she had continued her interest in the soldiers and their 
families, especially those of the poorest and lowest class. 
In this work she came much in contact with criminals 
and discharged prisoners. She was in this way prepared 
for her work at Sherborn. 
Besides the institutions described, there are reform- 
atories for men in Kansas, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ili- 
nois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and for women in Indiana 
and New York. 
The present situation in Iowa is as follows: The 
28th General Assembly in 1899 established at Anamosa 
an industrial reformatory for women and authorized the 
state Board of Control to open it. The buildings are 
ready, but they have not been opened because only girls 
from nine to sixteen, “who might be committed to the 
industrial school for girls at Mitchellville, and inmates 
of that school over fourteen, who are incorrigible, and 
whose presence is dangerous and detrimental to the wel- 
fare of the school,” could be sent to it. The number of 
probable inmates, not more than 30 during the first year, 
made it seem doubtful whether the reformatory could 
be operated during that year on the funds available. 
Hence the Board of Control decided not to try to open it 
till further action by the legislature. In their report of 
1901 the Board recommended that the law be so amended 
as “to permit the commitment to the reformatory of girls 
and women who are not less than twelve or more than 
twenty-two years of age.” They also recommended that 
definite provision be made for payment of the necessary 
expenses until the per capita allowance became suffi- 
cient. No action was taken by the last General Assem- 
bly in accordance with the recommendation. At the 
same session a bill to establish a reformatory for men 
passed the Senate but was reconsidered and beaten. The 
Board has recommended in two successive reports “that 
a reformatory for males convicted of felonies who are not 
less than sixteen nor more than thirty years of age be 
established, and that a law providing for indeterminate 
sentences with proper limitations and safeguards, and 
for paroles be enacted.” 
