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reformatory
noun as in reform school
Example Sentences
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.
He ended up getting sent to a borstal, a reformatory for young offenders.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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