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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reform school |
| Synonyms: | boot camp, cooler, correctional facility, correctional institution, jail, penal institution, penitentiary, prison, training school |
| Main Entry: | jail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for incarceration |
| Synonyms: | bastille, black hole, brig, bullpen, can*, cell, clink, cooler, detention camp, dungeon, house of correction, inside*, jailhouse, joint*, lockup, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, rack, reformatory, slammer, solitary*, stir*, stockade, up the river |
| Notes: | a jail is a short-term detention facility for those awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses; a prison or penitentiary is a long-term detention facility for those convicted of major offenses |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disciplinary |
| Synonyms: | chastening, corrective, penalizing, punishing, punitive, punitory, reformatory, retributive |
| Notes: | penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means 'serving to punish' |
| Main Entry: | penitentiary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jail |
| Synonyms: | big house, campus, can*, college, cooler, correctional institution, inside*, joint*, lockup, pen*, penal institution, prison, reformatory, slammer, stockade |
| Notes: | a jail is a short-term detention facility for those awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses; a prison or penitentiary is a long-term detention facility for those convicted of major offenses |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | residence for incarcerating criminals |
| Synonyms: | G, bastille, can*, clink, confinement, cooler, dungeon, guardhouse, jail, keep, lockup, pen*, penal institution, penitentiary, reformatory, slammer, statesville, stockade, up the river |
| Notes: | a jail is a short-term detention facility for those awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses; a prison or penitentiary is a long-term detention facility for those convicted of major offenses |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | house of correction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correctional facility |
| Synonyms: | borstal, detention center, detention home, house of detention, reform school, reformatory |
| Main Entry: | reform school |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | school for troubled youth |
| Synonyms: | boot camp, borstal, house of correction, military school, reformatory, training school |
| Main Entry: | training school |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | type of educational institution |
| Synonyms: | borstal institution, industrial school, reform school, reformatory, remand school, tech, training camp, training college, training ground, training ship |
| Main Entry: | amendatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
| Synonyms: | bettering, emendatory, improving, rectifying, reformative, reformatory, reparative, restorative |
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