Greensboro News
“What North Carolina needs is more reformatories. Now we have no place to send boys like these,” said Judge Thomas J. Shaw in Guilford Superior Court yesterday as he passed sentence upon James Millere, 16-year-old negro boy, who admitted having received watches stolen from the store of the Neese Jewelry company on Fayetteville street.
“There is a little place in Richmond county,” said Judge Shaw, “but it isn’t prepared to take care of many boys. It is just a makeshift and besides, it takes so much red tape to get a boy admitted,” the judge added.
“Mr. Clerk, is there any place in Gilford to send a negro boy?” he asked. The reply was that the workhouse, which years ago received juvenile criminals, had long since passed and was now the central convict camp.
The negro was given six months on the county roads, where he will served along with adult criminals.
From page 5 of the Concord Times, Monday, May 3, 1926
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