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History of Albion CF |
 | | Forever changing, Albion was a pioneer in the women's reformatory movement and then became the world's first institution for female "defective delinquents." In the 1960's, it was a rehabilitation center for drug addicts; in the 1970's, a community preparation center for men. |
 | | Credit for creating the Albion institution belongs primarily to Josephine Shaw Lowell, "the Queen Victoria of New York." Lowell, born in 1843, lost her husband and a brother in the Civil War. |
 | | Albion's managers may have been holier-than-thou, but they were evidently kind--certainly, no one went back to Sing Sing or Elmira on their own. |
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