Students engaged in creative activities at the Feeble Minded Institute, 1911. Photo by H.A. Gretter. KHS Collections.
As a part of the Progressive Reform Movement, the Kentucky General Assembly passed an act, approved March 9, 1920, “to create a State Board of Charities and Corrections for the management and supervision of the benevolent, charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and penal institutions” of the Commonwealth. Creation of this board was an attempt to remove the management of these institutions from politics and create a modern, efficient system for their operation.
Students engaged in creative activities at the Feeble Minded Institute, 1911. Photo by H.A. Gretter. KHS Collections.
