1895 Departmental Committee
In spite of carefully drawn legal distinctions, Reformatory and Industrial Schools were now very similar and this Committee treated them together for two reasons:- "First, as regards their system of management, their discipline, and the life led within their walls, there is really no practical difference between the two classes of institution; second, there is no more difference between the inmates of these institutions than in the life they lead... Magistrates often committed serious offenders to Industrial Schools under a mild section of the Act for "the indulgence of natural feelings of humanity tend to break down any attempt at strict classification on these lines."
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