reformatory

"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

Many of the incarcerated men said they view the reformatory as one of the safest prisons in Washington State — and credit University Beyond Bars, also known as UBB.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

This reformatory housed youngsters who had been convicted of theft, truancy or ill-disciplined – the types of children whose parents didn't want to know, outcasts.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 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

In his early attempts to improve the reformatories, Dr. Miller instituted new rules, including one requiring any authority who placed a youngster in isolation to remain with him or her until the confinement ended.

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

In America there is a decided tendency to substitute State reformatories for prisons, especially in the case of the young.

From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll