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Article: Meet the teens in lockup. (reforming juvenile offenders at the Ethan Allen School for Boys in Wisconsin)(Crackdown on Kids)(Cover Story)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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Short of prison, the last stop for young males who commit serious crimes in Wisconsin is the Ethan Allen School for Boys. Set in the pretty, rolling countryside outside the town of Wales, it was originally built as a tuberculosis sanitarium. Ethan Allen, or Wales, as it's commonly called, could easily be mistaken for a prep school, except that the grounds are surrounded by tall, chain-link fences and razor wire.
At the most remote end of campus, a new, maximum-security building has coils of razor wire wrapped around the roof, on top of the fence outside, and above the basketball courts in the backyard. A guard in a riot-proof central control booth monitors the ...