industrial school

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: a school specializing in the teaching of industrial arts specifically : one for juvenile delinquents

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Laundries, industrial schools, and mother and baby homes have all disappeared, and the Gloucester Street laundry is now one of the last physical reminders of this Irish gulag archipelago. — Ed O’loughlin, New York Times, "A Blot on Ireland’s Past, Facing Demolition," 15 Jan. 2018

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