‘Not fit for a dog’: Maryland reformatory boys died through years of disease, neglect

Capital News Service

CHELTENHAM, Md. – A 10-year-old dead of exhaustion. More than a dozen dead from pneumonia. About 100 youths succumbed to tuberculosis.

These are some of the main findings from a new Capital News Service analysis of death records for Black youths who died at the notorious House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children in southern Prince George’s County…

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