Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls
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Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls
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The Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, a reformatory, opened in 1910 in Bon Air, Chesterfield County as a private charity to confine and train “incorrigible” White girls under the age of eighteen. Black girls were sent to the Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls. Despite its name, the reformatory functioned largely as a juvenile prison, as girls were sentenced there by the Commonwealth's circuit, police, and juvenile courts for charges ranging from incorrigibility, truan
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