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| construction_began = 1915 | | construction_began = 1915 | ||
| opened = 1917 | | opened = 1917 | ||
| − | | closed = | + | | closed = Active state owned site |
| − | | demolished = | + | | demolished = n/a |
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]] | | current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]] | ||
| − | | building_style = [[Cottage | + | | building_style = [[Cottage Style Buildings]] |
| architect(s) = | | architect(s) = | ||
| location = Tecumseh, OK | | location = Tecumseh, OK | ||
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| − | In 1931 there were 222 "inmates", or girls, at the school. In 1934 there were 248 girls living at the school, and they were given an education through 8th grade. After 8th grade the education given was mainly vocational, typewriting or stenography. To discipline the girls matrons often removed honors, however the school also had what they called a "gloom house". Described by the superintendent, the gloom house was a "3-room building with modern conveniences, electric lights and water", but was in fact a jail with concrete walls and steel-barred cells. When girls were deemed not worthy of interacting with other girls they were confined to the jail for a period. For example an account from 1933 when 2 girls were punished in this way for thinning each others eyebrows. The matrons also resorted to "spanking" the girls with belts. For using vile language or fighting a girl might be spanked, with the spanking being witnessed by 4 other members of the staff (often men), and is done by a woman. The administrators and matrons believing about the public spanking that "The humiliation awakens the girl, especially if witnessed by male members of staff, as the girls do not like them to know that they have been naughty as the men umpire their games, take them on hikes and sometimes hunting" as was an account from a matron in 1934. (Under the administration preceding the one in power in 1934 even more | + | In 1931 there were 222 "inmates", or girls, at the school. |
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| + | In 1934 there were 248 girls living at the school, and they were given an education through 8th grade. After 8th grade the education given was mainly vocational, typewriting or stenography. | ||
| + | To discipline the girls matrons often removed honors, however the school also had what they called a "gloom house". Described by the superintendent, the gloom house was a "3-room building with modern conveniences, electric lights and water", but was in fact a jail with concrete walls and steel-barred cells. When girls were deemed not worthy of interacting with other girls they were confined to the jail for a period. For example an account from 1933 when 2 girls were punished in this way for thinning each others eyebrows. The matrons also resorted to "spanking" the girls with belts. For using vile language or fighting a girl might be spanked, with the spanking being witnessed by 4 other members of the staff (often men), and is done by a woman. The administrators and matrons believing about the public spanking that "The humiliation awakens the girl, especially if witnessed by male members of staff, as the girls do not like them to know that they have been naughty as the men umpire their games, take them on hikes and sometimes hunting" as was an account from a matron in 1934. (Under the administration preceding the one in power in 1934 even more objectional methods of control were being used such as Salt Peter.) | ||
Now known as the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center, the school buildings have been demolished and built up again over the years. It was previously operated by the Department of Human Services but has been under the jurisdiction of the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs since 1995. It is one of Oklahoma's "secure treatment facilities" where "residential programs provide rehabilitative for treatment to the Office of Juvenile Affairs' youth, who have been adjudicated as Youthful Offenders or delinquents and placed in OJA custody." | Now known as the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center, the school buildings have been demolished and built up again over the years. It was previously operated by the Department of Human Services but has been under the jurisdiction of the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs since 1995. It is one of Oklahoma's "secure treatment facilities" where "residential programs provide rehabilitative for treatment to the Office of Juvenile Affairs' youth, who have been adjudicated as Youthful Offenders or delinquents and placed in OJA custody." | ||
| − | The COJC sits directly on the same 30-acres of the original 147.7-acre plat. It is a co-ed center and has 72 beds. | + | The COJC sits directly on the same 30-acres of the original 147.7-acre plat. It is a co-ed center and has 72 beds. |
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
| + | [http://www.ok.gov/oja/COJC/About_COJC/]</ref> | ||
| + | [https://digitalprairie.ok.gov/digital/collection/culture/id/8227/]</ref> | ||
| + | [https://digitalprairie.ok.gov/digital/collection/culture/id/6474/rec/2]</ref> | ||
| + | [https://digitalprairie.ok.gov/digital/collection/culture/id/5395/rec/2]</ref> | ||
[[Category:Oklahoma]] | [[Category:Oklahoma]] | ||
| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Multiple Building Institutions]] |
[[Category:Active Institution]] | [[Category:Active Institution]] | ||
