Oakley Training School, Hinds County (1944-1961). With buildings and campus plan designed by the firm of Landry & Matthes, the Oakley Training School is significant as a Progressive-era reform school for black children, a long-desired counterpart to the earlier Columbia Training School. Radical changes in the nature of punishment and insitutionalization and a decline in population have made these building obsolete, and their presence behind prison walls means they have no alternate use.
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Wasn’t just for black kids. I served two years there and I am white. Had a white friend that committed suicide there too. Dont miss-inform idiot.
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so right, but the majority is black. I was there in 1976-1978 no body ever committed suicide, sorry to hear that Tim about your friend. But when I was sent there, it was the one of the best thing that happen to me in my life. I was a real bad ass kid that came from Chicago to live with my daddy in shaw, miss and if it was’nt for Oakley I would have went to prison. I was the baddest mother fucker there and columbia I was there from 74-76, Columbia training School I remember the coaches the frazier cousins enest and roland that keep me from a lots of trouble, the boss Mr. Sproats and my main man we call him boss man, Mr. Davis from cold storage where I worked. thats where I meet my first white friend norman munze, I could go on and on about my experience at OTS. my name is Willie Williams. peace
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