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...Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, visited a model U.S. reformatory in 1902, he first became convinced that a bad apple can spoil a barrel. Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal. There he began an experiment in straightening out youngsters gone wrong. Its basic idea: "the gospel of work...
...School of Education. It will be no ordinary course because Teacher Siepmann has his own ideas. One of six children of a German emigre to England, Siepmann attended Oxford, won the Military Cross in World War I as a British artilleryman in Italy. Pioneer headmaster of one of the Borstal schools for delinquents, where he introduced radio into the curriculum, he joined BBC in 1927, organized radio discussion groups until 1932 when he was made director of talks. Four years later he became program chief...
...racked their brains, wondered what to do with youthful criminals. Homes for delinquent children were overflowing, convicted moppets were being crowded in prisons with hardened felons. Britons rubbed their eyes and thought of Indiana's John Dillinger when one day last week five young desperadoes broke out of Borstal prison, piled into the Governor's car, and made...