borstal

Example Sentences

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As an American I'm only faintly aware of borstals.

From Salon

As a child, he spent time in borstal and by his teens he was a petty criminal who specialised in theft and forgery.

From BBC

Near Strawberry Field was the Gladstone merchant's mansion, named Woolton Vale, later to become Woolton Vale Remand Home, about which John's cousin Stanley declared that "the bad boys' borstal intrigued us."

From Salon

He would tell reporters stationed outside that the group wanted to become a "real people's forum, a resistance movement against all the institutions, like the family, schools, detention centres, borstals".

From BBC

Smith, an inmate at a young offenders’ institution, finds running a source of strength and a matter of principle, refusing to cross the finish line and glorify the borstal’s governor.

From The Guardian