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Recent Examples of reform school
Sunshine state panhandle reform school – a process that required a lot of trust, on all sides of the camera.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
The scene primarily involves the character Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), who has come to visit her grandson, Elwood, at the reform school Nickel Academy, where the boy has been sent unjustly.
—Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The difference here is that director Ross knows just how much there is to mine in the faces and body language of a roomful of reform school residents awaiting punishment, or in the quiet, devastated aftermath.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
The film, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, is a portrait of two Black boys who are sent to a violent reform school closely modeled on Dozier.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
The scene primarily involves the character Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), who has come to visit her grandson, Elwood, at the reform school Nickel Academy, where the boy has been sent unjustly.
—Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The difference here is that director Ross knows just how much there is to mine in the faces and body language of a roomful of reform school residents awaiting punishment, or in the quiet, devastated aftermath.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
The film, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, is a portrait of two Black boys who are sent to a violent reform school closely modeled on Dozier.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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But this time, when the familiar group then comes face-to-face inside the recognizable Red Center, home to the handmaids training school and familiar season-one stomping ground for the series, there was no violence.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
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In the summer of 1942, the the command opened a combat training school at Tarrant Field for pilots on the heavy bombers being produced next door at the Consolidated Vultee plant (now Lockheed Martin).—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 May 2025
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They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.—
Sonali Kolhatkar,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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Sounds like families being separated to go to concentration camps.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
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He was hired as a war crimes investigator and visited concentration camps during the World War II liberation to document Nazi crimes.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 2025
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The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2025
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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
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