a boarding school adjacent to the Riverbank property, the Illinois State Training School for Delinquent and Dependent Girls at Geneva, really a low-security juvenile prison in the countryside, a place where judges across Illinois sent “wayward girls” deemed mentally deficient or sexually promiscuous. The founder of the Training School ordered the girls beaten with rawhide whips and thought society should force them to be sterilized: “When they begin to grow and attain some size the blood that runs in their veins will begin to tell and the incorrigible girl is the result.”
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