Set in the Tokai Forest at the foot of the Constantiaberg Mountains in Cape Town, South Africa, lie the ruins of the William Porter Reformatory.  These monochrome photographs taken in the ruins of this reformatory (constructed in 1890), along with an historical summary of how the Reformatory operated, constitute a testament to horrors and injustices that we can’t even begin to imagine. The evidence of the terror this institution represented is still extant there in a wide variety of forms, not least of which are the various openings (portals), which allow us to look at both extremes of life there from an inmate's point of view. Youngsters were crowded into this very harsh prison-like environment under the constant surveillance of warders, many of whom were unemployed or ex-convicts. Warders either played by the rules of domination and subordination of inmates or lost their jobs, and arbitrary brutality and violence was a regular feature of reformatory life.