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

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys follows the powerful friendship between two men navigating a brutal reform school together in Florida.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2024

Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

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

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2024

“He’s referred to me from the relief. He’s been in a reform school and I’m giving him a chance. . . .”

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright