reform school

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Recent Examples of reform school Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America. Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025 After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times. Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025 Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967. Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025 Nearly every scene is filmed through the eyes of its leads, two Black boys who have been sent away to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida. Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reform school
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Noun
  • The new Scuola Bulgari is the first publicly accessible Bulgari training school focused on jewelry, which will open in September.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The novelist Daniel Kehlmann became interested in film as a child, the son of a father who survived a Nazi labor camp and went on to direct movies and theater.
    David Segal, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Two cousins are sent to prison camps, while two remain free.
    Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
  • His award-winning memoir, A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America (2005, Penguin Random House), detailed his military journey, including reuniting with his father who spent twelve years in prison camps in postwar Vietnam.
    Quang X. Pham, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • These camps remind many Americans of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2025
  • My wife, who was born in Hamburg, remembers being taken to the former Neuengamme concentration camp with her school as a teenager.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One of the teens, Elwood Curtis, sees his dreams of attending college shattered when he is sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South.
    Nora Colomer, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Due’s novel follows a 12-year-old boy in the 1950s sentenced to an infamous reformatory where ghosts in the halls tell stories about the boys that have been abused and gone missing there.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025

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