Russel Sage Foundation

This booklet covers the development in the United States of schools for the training of guards and other prison officers modeled on one in England. Topics include the U.S. Training School at 427 West Street in New York City, the Keepers’ Training School on New York’s Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island), and the British Training School in Wakefield, England. The booklet also contains forms relating to candidates for prison service in England and Wales.

HASTINGS H. HART was a consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.