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Definition of reform school in English: reform schoolnoun historical An institution to which young offenders were sent as an alternative to prison. Example sentencesExamples - James Cagney plays Patsy Gargan, a two-bit racketeer who is awarded a post as deputy commissioner of a boys reform school as a political payoff.
- At 15, Hart was sent to reform school for stealing a car.
- In determining who might be incarcerated or placed in a reform school, ‘illegitimate pregnancy was considered a marker of delinquency, as were interracial liaisons’.
- The job is that of a teacher in a reform school for delinquent boys run by the Christian Brothers.
- The rest of the cast pretty much flounders, too; the girls at the reform school are too sweet and soft for the kind of sweaty danger that the story needs, and the gals playing the guards are little more than confused extras with dialogue.
- Preston School of Industry is an old reform school - for delinquent boys - located close to Spiral's hometown of Stockton.
- Asbos may be effective, but where they are not, the kindest thing for the young offender is a well-managed reform school.
- Rumor has it that, last year Mike went to a reform school (no one knew where).
- This film is filled with rich dialogue, bad, bad girlfriends and an inside look at the politics within a Catholic reform school for wayward girls.
- Ménard was sent to a Montreal reform school and when he reached adulthood he served in the Korean War.
- As you might expect from someone who has spent time in an orphanage and a reform school, he has a rather jaundiced view of some professional charity organisers.
- The suspect was recently allowed home for a holiday from a reform school in Mpumalanga, where he was serving a two-year sentence for a brutal murder committed here in 2001.
- They also evaluated 97 boys and 22 girls, average age 15, living in a reform school for violent and nonviolent delinquents.
- I am locked down in a reform school for flipping out at school and for threatening my teacher.
- If the girl was deemed promiscuous, became pregnant, or could not keep a job, she could be returned to the reform school.
- At the time of the attack, the youth was on ‘Christmas break’ from a reform school where he was serving a rehabilitation sentence.
- The riot police were considerably less amused than partygoers would have been at the sight of two punks spoofing the upper class, and the lads ended up at a reform school for juvenile offenders, where Dorian spent six months.
- Elizabeth Bentley spent her last years as a near-recluse in rented rooms in Connecticut, teaching in a reform school for girls.
- Grant, 46, grew up in a Bronx housing project and had what he earnestly describes as a ‘less than ideal’ childhood, which included spending time at a reform school.
- Among other details, she recounts that Douglas spent time in a rural reform school as a youth and his job was to tend the pigs.
Definition of reform school in US English: reform schoolnounrəˈfôrm ˌsko͞ol historical An institution to which youthful offenders are sent as an alternative to prison. Example sentencesExamples - Elizabeth Bentley spent her last years as a near-recluse in rented rooms in Connecticut, teaching in a reform school for girls.
- The riot police were considerably less amused than partygoers would have been at the sight of two punks spoofing the upper class, and the lads ended up at a reform school for juvenile offenders, where Dorian spent six months.
- The rest of the cast pretty much flounders, too; the girls at the reform school are too sweet and soft for the kind of sweaty danger that the story needs, and the gals playing the guards are little more than confused extras with dialogue.
- This film is filled with rich dialogue, bad, bad girlfriends and an inside look at the politics within a Catholic reform school for wayward girls.
- Grant, 46, grew up in a Bronx housing project and had what he earnestly describes as a ‘less than ideal’ childhood, which included spending time at a reform school.
- They also evaluated 97 boys and 22 girls, average age 15, living in a reform school for violent and nonviolent delinquents.
- The job is that of a teacher in a reform school for delinquent boys run by the Christian Brothers.
- If the girl was deemed promiscuous, became pregnant, or could not keep a job, she could be returned to the reform school.
- As you might expect from someone who has spent time in an orphanage and a reform school, he has a rather jaundiced view of some professional charity organisers.
- Preston School of Industry is an old reform school - for delinquent boys - located close to Spiral's hometown of Stockton.
- Among other details, she recounts that Douglas spent time in a rural reform school as a youth and his job was to tend the pigs.
- The suspect was recently allowed home for a holiday from a reform school in Mpumalanga, where he was serving a two-year sentence for a brutal murder committed here in 2001.
- In determining who might be incarcerated or placed in a reform school, ‘illegitimate pregnancy was considered a marker of delinquency, as were interracial liaisons’.
- I am locked down in a reform school for flipping out at school and for threatening my teacher.
- Asbos may be effective, but where they are not, the kindest thing for the young offender is a well-managed reform school.
- At 15, Hart was sent to reform school for stealing a car.
- Ménard was sent to a Montreal reform school and when he reached adulthood he served in the Korean War.
- James Cagney plays Patsy Gargan, a two-bit racketeer who is awarded a post as deputy commissioner of a boys reform school as a political payoff.
- Rumor has it that, last year Mike went to a reform school (no one knew where).
- At the time of the attack, the youth was on ‘Christmas break’ from a reform school where he was serving a rehabilitation sentence.
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