reform school

Example Sentences

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In 2020 he joined a number of men in suing a Pennsylvania reform school where he says he was abused.

From New York Times

The outdoor enclosure that looks like a tropical junkyard is basically an unglamorous reform school of sorts that involves the occasional therapy sesh with Glaser.

From Salon

Her tale of growing up in an abusive Irish Catholic home, being sent to a reform school, gaining worldwide fame at age 20 and raising her own four children is scintillating.

From Washington Post

The victims would then be able to file claims for psychological and physical injuries if they were inmates at the reform schools between the years 1940 and 1975.

From Washington Times

The Pulitzer committee lauded “The Nickel Boys” as “a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption.”

From Los Angeles Times