reformatory
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Mariona's memory of telling this story to the youngsters in her family is blurred, she believes as a result of the psychiatric "treatment" she was forced to undergo at the reformatory.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
In the film about two teens in a reformatory school, the camera becomes the point-of-view of a couple of characters, while other characters look directly into the lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
He ended up getting sent to a borstal, a reformatory for young offenders.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023
He became involved with University Beyond Bars shortly after he arrived at the reformatory in 2010.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
A judge was going to determine whether the boy had to go to a reformatory home or could stay put, with relatives who didn’t particularly want him.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
As a teen, Clayton-Thomas lived on the streets and passed through a series of jails and reformatories.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
In his early attempts to improve the reformatories, Dr. Miller instituted new rules, including one requiring any authority who placed a youngster in isolation to remain with him or her until the confinement ended.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2015
In examining the state child-care system in Ireland, the series brought to light a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children known as industrial schools.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2012
The result -- for Mayan, at least -- was a three-year odyssey through various ultra-Orthodox reformatories and foster families.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2010
Recent experiments in reformatories have demonstrated the immense advantage of methods which attempt something like this.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
