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Thu 05 May 2009Poorest of the poor put away on word of 'the cruelty man'
ORIGINS OF SYSTEM:THEY WERE the poorest of the poor, children who were sent away to industrial schools for no other reason than being needy, orphaned, or failing to attend school.
Much smaller numbers were young offenders, typically sent to reformatory schools for minor offences like stealing following a judicial process that provided them with no legal representation.
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