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Those crimes included forcing the Krenak off their land in southeastern Minas Gerais state, where a so-called reformatory site was built.

Her rebellious nature was mainly driven by resentment at the abuse she suffered as a child and her experience in a Dublin reformatory.

From BBC

He ended up getting sent to a borstal, a reformatory for young offenders.

From Salon

For people like them, the reformatory offered one of the few pathways to a degree inside.

This reformatory housed youngsters who had been convicted of theft, truancy or ill-disciplined – the types of children whose parents didn't want to know, outcasts.

From Salon

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

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