Full Virginia Girls' Reformatory Admissions Database 1910-1938

This data set of 2,370 individual female reformatory inmates admitted to the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls at Bon Air and the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls at Peake’s Turnout between 1910 and 1938. Created out of the unpublished and archived admissions books of these institutions. Due to Virginia’s 75-year privacy restriction, I stopped collecting at December 1938 for each institution. Data from the Home at Bon Air runs from 1910 to 1938 and from the Home at Peake’s Turnout from 1915 to 1938. Each reformatory kept separate books, which were archived into individual collections. There was enough similarity between the two books to transcribe the data into one large data set.

I have removed the names of the individual inmates upon publication. Researchers interested in using this data in their work can contact me at erin@erinbush.org to request versions that include complete name fields. The Data Dictionary is also available upon request.

The contents of these data sets, as government records, I believe fall under fair use.

Full Collection

• Full Virginia Girls' Reformatory Admissions Database 1910-1938: https://zenodo.org/records/3872019
• Full Virginia Girls' Reformatory Transfer and Dismissal Data 1910-1938: https://zenodo.org/records/3872110
• Full Virginia Girls' Reformatory Parole Data 1910-1938: https://zenodo.org/records/3872100