reform school
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The Ohio-born musician entered a reform school in Michigan at 9 years old and spent the following two decades in and out of correctional facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The actor stars alongside Tracey Ullman and Emily Watson in a film that follows the weary employees and difficult students of an English reform school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys follows the powerful friendship between two men navigating a brutal reform school together in Florida.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024
Keep in mind I had worked in a reform school for girls!
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2024
The average age in our platoon, I’d guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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