For what it's worth, my personal experience with Glen Mills, elaborating on my earlier post on GCA. The "reform schools" in Pennsylvania have traditionally been privately run. Whether there are similar government-run schools today, I do not know. Glen Mills was started by the Quakers but apparently is now independent. From 1956 to 1960 I attended a private Quaker boarding school near Glen Mills, so close in fact that from our campus you could easily see the Glen Mills buildings over the farm fields (now intersected with subdivisions). Our teams played basketball and ran track against Glen Mills. Once they brought some players over to our campus for basketball, but mostly we visited them. I ran track at Glen Mills and played basketball against Glen Mills.
The basketball experience was very interesting to a boy from West Virginia who'd led a relatively sheltered life. The "gym" had a cement floor, and the backboards were mounted flush on the walls at each end of the court. "Spectators" were ushered in for brief periods of time -- maybe one group each quarter. I don't recall the specifics. They were accompanied by armed guards.
When Glen Mills built the golf course, 10 to 20 years ago, as I recall, I read about it in SI or a golf magazine. Five years ago when I went back to my 45th high school class reunion I went over to Glen Mills to play the course and as a single was paired to play with three others, a father and his two adult sons. My perception at time was that the land was not great golf land, and some of the holes were a little "quirky" (as also noted above) I thought, but that the mission was laudable. Not surprisingly, the grill does not serve alcohol, and you are not allowed to bring alcohol on the property. Beyond that, Glen Mills, as a "reform school," has apparently come a long way from the prison-like environment of the 1950s. http://www.glenmillsschool.org/