reform school

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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

Hundreds of boys, many with troubled backgrounds, were sent to the reform school on the border of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire by local authorities across England.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

Keep in mind I had worked in a reform school for girls!

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2024

Tick’s research provides new details on Fitzgerald’s early life growing up in Yonkers, including the shattering death of her mother and a year spent in reform school.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023

He came out of reform school as innocent of viciousness as he was of fractions and long division.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck