Being in the Elmira Reformatory has three grades in where to place an inmate, depending on their behavior. When …show more content…
Alexander said that Mr. Brockway is not only the director of the establishment, but he also lives and thinks with each induvial inmate, he lived among the inmates. The predominance of intellectual, ethical teaching and religious teaching was a reformatory influence at Elmira Reformatory. Mr. Brockway came up with a plan of a system of self-support among the prisoners. He wanted to open a n with every inmate in the Elmira Reformatory, and to charge him with his board, lodging, clothing, medical treatment, etc. By opening this system plan he wish to open it will credit him with his labor and its actual cost to the State. He wanted the prisoners to have the surplus, and not to be liberated if the balance was against him. (Weston,