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reform school

noun as in school for troubled youth

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Sympathetic docs The American Meme and This Is Paris—in which Hilton reflected on abuse she allegedly suffered at a series of residential reform schools—have added dimensions to her image, rescuing her from the realm of pop-culture caricatures.

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The topics of the previous books were both deeply serious, tackling American slavery and a treacherous real-life reform school, respectively.

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Did you meet any teenagers whose behavior or actions seemed at all worthy (on any level) of being sent to a reform school?

Rotherham had demonstrated outright hostility to his previous efforts to reform school-lunch nutrition.

Such were the public sentiment and sense of honor, even in a reform school.

In January, 1871, he was appointed an officer of the reform school at Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Three were sent to the penitentiary, seven to the reform school and fourteen let go temporarily on good behavior.

A hotel without women would be almost as cheerful as a reform school.

Tell him you don't want to send them to the reform school, but would like to have them put under the discipline of a big ship.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reform school, such as: boot camp, borstal, house of correction, military school, reformatory, and training school.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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