reformative

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Marketed as a boarding school that would help troubled teens, Ivy Ridge claimed to use therapy and recreational activities as reformative tactics.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2024

“Sheriffs will have no choice but to suspend all reformative programs due to this inherent coercion,” the association wrote in November.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2022

The Oregon State Sheriffs' Association opposes the measure there, saying it would lead to "unintended consequences" and the loss of all "reformative programs", which include low-paid tasks like working in the library, kitchen and laundry.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2022

News to reflect on reformative trends and to prescribe solutions for the future.

From US News • Oct. 30, 2014

Unlike the retributive166 penalties inflicted in Hell, this punishment is reformative, confirming the penitent in good habits of thought and deed.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)