reformative

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“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

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

From US News • Oct. 30, 2014

India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights described the proposed amendments as "retrograde in nature and against the principles of reformative and restorative justice".

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2014

It is clear that a term of imprisonment will have no rehabilitative or reformative effect on Cox.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2013

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)