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The juvenile offenders, at the end of the 18th and the beginning of 19th centuries, were sentenced, punished and served their punishments in jails or other penal units in very miserable conditions, along with adult criminals or mentally ill individuals. The situation changed under the actions of the new established movement for Prevention of Pauperism with leaders Thomas Eddy and John Griskom, who opposed to the current practice of placing juveniles in penitentiaries with adults and insisted on establishment of new units that would answer the requirements for domicile of poor and rambling through the ...