The National Training School For Boys was a Federal Government Juvenile Correctional Institution located in what is now known as the Fort Lincoln area of Washington, D.C. Eugene Smith, in his book, Correction and Prevention, written in 1910 and published by Hastings Hornell Hart, (which is now in the public domain and has been digitized by Google), the NTSB, (The acronym used for this institution before the current National Transportation Safety Board adopted its use) was described as follows:
" This school is located at Washington, D.C. and is used for the confinement of male offenders against the laws of the United States who are under the age of seventeen years. There is a board of trustees which is authorized to make rules and regulations for the government of the school. The Members of the board are appointed by the President of the United States, upon the recommendation of the Attorney General. The board of trustees is authorized by law to release boys committed from the District of Columbia under certain conditions before their terms have expired. The power of the board to parole boys was extended to boys committed to the school by United States courts in any judicial district of the United States. The parole of this class is subject to the approval of the Attorney General."
Information concerning this former facility can also be found in the U.S. Code.
Charles Manson was sent to the School in 1951.[1]