Editing Oklahoma State Training School for Boys

{{infobox institution
| name = Oklahoma State Training School for Boys at Helena
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| image_size = 250px
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| established = 
| construction_began = 
| opened = 1945
| closed = 1982
| demolished = 
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]] (As a juvenile facility)
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]
| architect(s) = 
| location = Helena, OK
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| peak_patient_population = 
| alternate_names =<br>
*Helena State School for Boys
*James Crabtree Correctional Center (Current)
}}


==History==
The facility was originally established in 1904 in Pauls Valley, OK, and has served as a county high school, a junior college, an orphanage, and training school for boys ages 10-17. The school was moved to the vacant Orphans Home at Helena, Ok and the original building was then used as additional patient housing for the Pauls Valley State Hospital. During this time the school operated on the same grounds as the Western Oklahoma State School for White Children, an orphanage that occupied the former high school after 1923.

Reconfigured in July 1982 as James Crabtree Correctional Center, a medium-security prison, the complex has housed more than eight hundred adult men offenders and continued in that function at the end of the twentieth century. In the 1990s the facility operated a farm and also maintained a quail hatchery for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. During the 1990s the prison's wild horse training program annually brought mustang owners and buyers to Helena. 


==Historical News==
On June 6, 1980 Maxine Fullerton, a 54-year old laundress at the Helena State School for Boys was found dead in the schools basement laundry room. A mother of 5 and a grandmother, Fullerton was brutally killed by 16-year old Keith Armstrong who was serving time at the school for attempted rape. Fullerton was raped, beaten, and stabbed 28 times in the neck and chest with 2 pairs of scissors. Armstrong was sentenced to life in prison for this crime.


[[Category:Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]
[[Category:Closed Institution]]