reformatory

Mariona's memory of telling this story to the youngsters in her family is blurred, she believes as a result of the psychiatric "treatment" she was forced to undergo at the reformatory.

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 became involved with University Beyond Bars shortly after he arrived at the reformatory in 2010.

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 1972, in a controversial action that would bring sweeping changes to juvenile corrections across the United States, Dr. Miller began shutting down Massachusetts’s 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

But, like Mayan, he was caught and spent time in reformatories.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2010

The weighty reasons which call for separate courts and reformatories for juvenile offenders are equally valid in the case of female law-breakers, for whom special tribunals and legislation should be provided.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Gina Lombroso