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Mettray (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the children's penal colony opened in 1840 that completed the carceral system — and produced the first penitentiary saint, a dying boy who said, 'What a pity I left the colony so soon.'