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In 1964, shortly after her release from reform school, Sill’s mother died from alcoholism and her stepfather began locking her out of the house.
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Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
He was sent at 14 to the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in Florida’s Panhandle for boys who committed crimes large and small.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
The fictional reform school and its abuses are quite similar to Florida’s very real Dozier School for Boys.
—USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
Meanwhile, the team talks to a former classmate whom Amanda had called out of the blue a few weeks ago, asking for photos from the reform school.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 May 2023
Despite what might have been the best intentions of some, the reform school experience of the 1950s had many brutalizing aspects about it.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
Such violence at school disrupts teaching and learning and has elicited calls to reform school discipline policies.
—F. Chris Curran, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
Well, some think Army-Navy is a reform school — a place where parents send their troubled boys for a dose of discipline.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
By then O’Connor had already been hauled into police stations for shoplifting and other petty offenses, landing in a Catholic reform school where a kindly nun bought her a guitar and a book of Bob Dylan songs.
—Allyson McCabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
He was sent at 14 to the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in Florida’s Panhandle for boys who committed crimes large and small.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
The fictional reform school and its abuses are quite similar to Florida’s very real Dozier School for Boys.
—USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
Meanwhile, the team talks to a former classmate whom Amanda had called out of the blue a few weeks ago, asking for photos from the reform school.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 May 2023
Despite what might have been the best intentions of some, the reform school experience of the 1950s had many brutalizing aspects about it.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
Such violence at school disrupts teaching and learning and has elicited calls to reform school discipline policies.
—F. Chris Curran, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
Well, some think Army-Navy is a reform school — a place where parents send their troubled boys for a dose of discipline.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
By then O’Connor had already been hauled into police stations for shoplifting and other petty offenses, landing in a Catholic reform school where a kindly nun bought her a guitar and a book of Bob Dylan songs.
—Allyson McCabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reform%20school. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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