STATE TRAINING SCHOOL

Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.

The State Training School is located three miles southeast of Pauls Valley on a four-hundred-acre tract of land, donated to the state by the citizens of Pauls Valley. The school was opened to receive inmates June 17, 1910, and since that time 134 boys have been committed by the juvenile courts of the state:

Provisions were made in a bill passed by the legislature at the 1911 session for establishing a girls' training school at Shawnee and another providing for its maintenance. The first was vetoed by the governor, but the bill appropriating $12,500 for 1912 and a similar amount for 1913, was approved.

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