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reformatory

adjective

serving or designed to reform: reformatory punishments.
reformatory lectures;
reformatory punishments.

, plural re·form·a·to·ries.

Also called reform school. (no longer in official use) a penal institution for reforming young offenders, especially minors. juvenile detention center.

reformatory

/ rɪˈfɔːmətərɪ; -trɪ /

See approved school
Also calledreform school (formerly) a place of instruction where young offenders were sent for corrective training Compare approved school

The state reformatory was abandoned, and scheduled for demolition once the film was finished.

The Panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel.

Opposite him is Jack, whose previous experience in a reformatory has "put him wise," as he expresses it.

The answer is plain: as in other reformatory institutions, there will be some successes and some failures.

Massachusetts is charged with the support of a great number of charitable and reformatory institutions.

We miss, too, in the prison, another essential element of a reformatory institution.

In other parts of France, as well as in Barn, Jeanne's reformatory movements were looked upon with great disfavor.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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