The Negro Reform School at Mount Meggs

The power of the state against these children is truly like overwhelming. And especially under the guise of reform. This idea of juvenile detention is being intimately connected with not only reforming oneself, which is grotesque when considering how young so many of these kids were and put into this facility. The report of the school just issued shows that they gathered 900 bushels of corn from 30 acres of land. That is not bad considering the fact it used to require about 30 acres to get 100 bushels. They have competent leaders to show them how to work. And they also have overseers and superintendents who insist on them working after they are shown how. So I think there are a couple of