reformatory
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"They put me in a reformatory when I was 17."
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
In the film about two teens in a reformatory school, the camera becomes the point-of-view of a couple of characters, while other characters look directly into the lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
He ended up getting sent to a borstal, a reformatory for young offenders.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023
For people like them, the reformatory offered one of the few pathways to a degree inside.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
A judge was going to determine whether the boy had to go to a reformatory home or could stay put, with relatives who didn’t particularly want him.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
As a teen, Clayton-Thomas lived on the streets and passed through a series of jails and reformatories.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Dr. Miller, a psychiatric social worker who had once considered joining the Catholic priesthood, set out in his position as commissioner of Massachusetts’s youth services department to fix the reformatories.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2015
In examining the state child-care system in Ireland, the series brought to light a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children known as industrial schools.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2012
The result -- for Mayan, at least -- was a three-year odyssey through various ultra-Orthodox reformatories and foster families.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2010
Our reformatories are full to overflowing with these neglected unfortunates; deprived thus of the haven of homes and maternal control.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
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