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reformatory
(redirected from Reformatory school)

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reformatory
(formerly) a place of instruction where young offenders were sent for corrective training


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For similar outbreaks in Australian reformatories, sometimes instigated by Irish immigrant girls, see Noeline Williamson, ""Hymns, Songs and Blackguard Verses": Life in the Industrial and Reformatory School for Girls in New South Wales, Part 1, 1867-1887," Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society [Australia], Vol.
Wild workhouse girls and the liberal imperial state in mid-nineteenth ... by Clark, Anna / Journal of Social History
12) Industrial and reformatory schools were established in Britain by legislation in the 1850s.
That other state aid question: assistance to charitable homes for ... by Quinn, Peter / Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
Dead-end kids, though they get sent up to a reformatory school for what really was an accident.
Looking for God in Hollywood by Buckley, William F., Jr. / National Review
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