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The YPA’s most famous alumnus, Bronx orphan Harry Eisman, was elected as head of the International Children’s Congress in Moscow while he was held in a New York reformatory.

The state reformatory was abandoned, and scheduled for demolition once the film was finished.

The Panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel.

Opposite him is Jack, whose previous experience in a reformatory has "put him wise," as he expresses it.

The answer is plain: as in other reformatory institutions, there will be some successes and some failures.

Massachusetts is charged with the support of a great number of charitable and reformatory institutions.

We miss, too, in the prison, another essential element of a reformatory institution.

In other parts of France, as well as in Barn, Jeanne's reformatory movements were looked upon with great disfavor.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reformatory, such as: cooler, jail, penitentiary, prison, boot camp, and correctional facility.

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

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