A Case of External Incarceration at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

ABSTRACT The Carlisle Indian Industrial School used numerous methods of discipline to enforce its rules with its Native American students. One of the methods was incarceration on the school grounds in the guard house or girls’ lock-up, but this article analyzes one specific case where the school administration had two students imprisoned in the county jail for “fornication.” This article explores how and why the students got there and investigates how the school interfaced with external institutions and exerted control over the bodies of its enrollees when they disregarded school rules.