Sleighton Farm School

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Sleighton Farm School is an abandoned reformatory school for delinquent children in Pennsylvania.

The Sleighton Farm School began as the House of Refuge in Philadelphia in 1826. It was founded by the Quakers, with assistance from the Pennsylvania Prison Society, on the basis that juvenile offenders should be treated differently than adults. The House of Refuge believed its primary goals were to retrain and re-educate at-risk youth, most of whom came from unstable homes. It accomplished this by establishing sense of security, and a sense of responsibility and self-respect.
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