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.