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How to use reformatory in a sentence

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A street kid who was once sent to a reformatory, he aspired to be a boxer, enlisted in the navy, and did jail time for a minor robbery.
When he was nine he left a two-year-old child in a brook with a cut head, and received five years in a reformatory school as punishment.
Organized civil disobedience may have reformatory, revolutionary, or defensive objectives.
Most say they want to testify about their childhood experiences in residential care, mainly in industrial and reformatory schools.
If incarceration is necessary, then the defence submits that upper reformatory confinement is adequate penalty.
Noel Kelly was sent to Daingean reformatory for stealing sweets and ended up an armed robber.
The barn was originally built as the dairy facility for a juvenile reformatory.
They talked of locking them up in reformatory hostels, but that was too expensive.
Many women were also sent to the reformatory on the suspicion of having a venereal disease.
Rehabilitation for the youthful is unlikely if imprisonment is served in a penitentiary rather than a reformatory.
The amendments also introduced the option of paying fines from 100 to 1000 leva instead of reformatory labour or imprisonment.
In the 17th century, bridewells and reformatory institutions started to appear.
In 1930 the then Department of Education produced a 200-plus page report, but only eight pages referred to industrial and reformatory schools.
They emphasised the need for taking urgent reformatory steps against the fast growing social evils.
Those undergoing the reformatory education program would be prohibited from running until 10 years after they have completed the program.
In 1913 the London County Council carried a resolution to close its inebriate reformatory, Farmfield.
In total, 331 male witnesses reported that 445 people associated with industrial or reformatory schools abused them, with 402 males and 43 females being identified.
Eventually, having been caught drinking alcohol, he was saved from a stretch in a reformatory by showing the judge the weals on his back.
In January 1901 Davis began work as superintendent of the newly opened state reformatory for women at Bedford Hills, New York.
Provision for the detention of convicted child offenders is made at a reformatory that has been developed into two separate facilities.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In Ireland the reformatory and industrial school system conforms to that of Great Britain.
His brother, Canon O'Gorman, was one of the dignitaries of the archdiocese, and director of the boys' reformatory.
I wonder if they are out of the reformatory yet for setting fire to the barn?
Six weeks hard labour, and then four years in a reformatory.
Miss Ophelia, after passing on her reformatory tour through all the other parts of the establishment, now entered the kitchen.
He said such experience resulted in correcting the behavior of many once sent to reformatory houses as early as possible.
He spent seven years in a reformatory and the kids there were never young.
He has been sent to a reformatory for a good number of years.
Were he to place her in a reformatory, she would not stay there.
She meant to interest her in the reformatory school for William's sake.
It was once used as a school, and later on as a reformatory.
His frankest plays, as we have indicated, are attacks on vice and folly, and sometimes, it is said, had important reformatory influence on contemporary manners.
Certainly he could not have chosen a more promising reformatory for Sally.
But he was sent to Ohio State Reformatory after being caught behind the wheel again.
Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.
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