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
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
He was in a reformatory for six months.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
But, like Mayan, he was caught and spent time in reformatories.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2010
He took warm interest in the reformation of juvenile criminals, and established on his own estate one of the best conducted reformatories in the country.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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