Gary W Stout

Castle of Broken Boys Volume 3 Gary W Stout

In 1894, seven wards left San Quentin to spend the rest of their sentences at the new State reform school in Ione. It didn't take much for the courts to commit a boy to the Preston School of Industry. Career criminals accounted for a major portion of the population, but orphans, vagrants, and children whose parents could no longer care for them also called the facility on the hill their home. Volume 3 of this series delves into the history of the Preston administration building and the facility's expansion as it grew to encompass a thousand acres, with dozens of dormitories, a refectory, trades building, and detention cells. Learn about the trades where the cadets gained experience to help them find employment when paroled. Visualize the history through hundreds of archive photos.