How to Pronounce Frédéric-Auguste Demetz
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May 12, 1796 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 15 Nov 1873 (aged 77)
French penal reformer
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About Frédéric Auguste Demetz
- Frédéric-Auguste Demetz (1796–1873) was a French penal reformer and jurist.
- He toured the United States in 1836, together with the architect Guillaume-Abel Blouet, to study progressive American prison architecture and administration for the French Ministry of the Interior.
- Upon their return, they published a detailed and laudatory report.
- The result was Blouet's appointment as Inspecteur général des prisons in 1838, and a prison farm for juvenile offenders at Mettray, on the outskirts of Tours, founded in 1839; it was conceived by both men and directed by Demetz, as a prison without walls, with the backing of the vicomte de Bretignières de Courteilles.
