reform school

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Recent Examples of reform school Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher (Cillian Murphy) of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Sep. 2025 Porter’s original story was told from the perspective of Shy, a troubled teenager at a reform school, the final stop before prison. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025 Operated by the title character, Steve — into whom lead actor Cillian Murphy channels all sorts of irreconcilable conflict — this is the reform school of last resort. Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 Their recidivism is fueled by law enforcement indulgence: pretrial diversion, rehabilitation fantasies, probation or reform school. Armstrong Williams, Oc Register, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reform school
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Noun
  • But that dream came with challenges, and now a lawsuit against American Airlines and a flight training school.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Dec. 2025
  • McRae attended the training school for the Alberta Ballet company and competed in dance competitions every weekend.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.
    Paul Slovak September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert Maxwell's daughter, is currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and is serving time at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.
    Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Schloss family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps in 1944.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 3 May 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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