Today in 1883, local teen Jane Brown was sentenced to the SF Magdalen Asylum for being "an idle and dissolute girl." This was, indeed, a crime, and incarcerating vagrant and orphaned kids was thought to be a way of preventing delinquency. https://t.co/k5bTEAwb96 pic.twitter.com/85kq7YE7AA
— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) May 12, 2023