reformatory
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"They put me in a reformatory when I was 17."
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
Many of the incarcerated men said they view the reformatory as one of the safest prisons in Washington State — and credit University Beyond Bars, also known as UBB.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
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.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 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
But, like Mayan, he was caught and spent time in reformatories.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2010
Experiments on hypnotic lines ought certainly to be carried out in our prisons and reformatories.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
