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reformatory

(formerly) a place of instruction where young offenders were sent for corrective training
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Pray, how can such facilities effectively serve the purpose of reformatory homes even if the officials have the best of intentions and the inmates are favourably disposed to correction?
Making Nigerian Prisons Truly Correctional
TESDA aimed to give hope to the inmates making them employable after serving the reformatory center.
108 inmates pass technical training
When the reformatory opened, its first group of boys totaled 53.
FROM INMATES TO INFANTRYMEN: The Michigan Boys' Reform School and the American Civil War
A heavy sadness hovers over the former Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, where prisoners were crammed into tiny cells amid the metal-on-metal mesh of containment and collected sweat, and where you can re-enact the chilling echo from the chakunnnggg of the door slamming shut in solitary confinement, leaving only disorienting darkness.
American Idol winner plans concert at the site of sterling prison
He pointed out the Sharjah Punitive and Reformatory Establishments (SPRE) encourages none Muslims to convert to Islam through religious lectures which aimed at spread of Islam teachings.
21 inmates convert to Islam in Sharjah
> Daniel McCar ty, 13, was also given 14 days' hard labour and then spent three years at a reformatory school after attempting to steal strawberries in July 1864.
Two theft charges for stealing a pair - one charge for each shoe! Mid-19th-century Carmarthenshire didn't suffer criminals gladly. Be they murderers or those found guilty of stealing cheese, all faced the harshest of sentences, as Rachael Misstear discovered..
He said such experience resulted in correcting the behavior of many once sent to reformatory houses as early as possible.
Interior ministry security spokesman gives more clarification on yesterday's interior ministry statement 2 Riyadh
But he was sent to Ohio State Reformatory after being caught behind the wheel again.
Caught after 56yrs on run: the real-life Shawshank escapee; Cops find fugitive enjoying retirement in Florida sunshine
Achieving Baby Care Success (ABCS), the first and only Ohio prison nursery, was started at The Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) in Marysville, Ohio.
Achieving baby care success: the only Ohio prison nursery
President Al-Basher addressing, Monday, the inauguration of the 4th phase of Al-Huda Reformatory City in Omdurman, gave directives for completion of all the police projectsto enable the policemen to perform their duties towards protection of the citizens and proporities .
President Al-Basher Announces Release of 2000 of prisoners
The buildings were later repurposed for use as a school and a Catholic girls' reformatory run by the Sisters of St Joseph.
Remembering the significant: St John's Kapunda, South Australia

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