borstal

As an American I'm only faintly aware of borstals.

As a child, he spent time in borstal and by his teens he was a petty criminal who specialised in theft and forgery.

Near Strawberry Field was the Gladstone merchant's mansion, named Woolton Vale, later to become Woolton Vale Remand Home, about which John's cousin Stanley declared that "the bad boys' borstal intrigued us."

"Welcome to borstal," she added, spraying bits of crisp out of her mouth like snowflakes.

He would tell reporters stationed outside that the group wanted to become a "real people's forum, a resistance movement against all the institutions, like the family, schools, detention centres, borstals".