reform school

noun

Definition of reform schoolnext
as in training school

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Recent Examples of reform school This staggering drama forces the viewer to bear witness to brutal conditions at a corrupt reform school through the eyes of two of its students — literally. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025 The Netflix drama, directed by Tim Mielants and written by Max Porter, is a reimagining of Porter’s best-selling novel Shy and follows a pivotal day in the life of head teacher Steve (Murphy) and his students at a last-chance reform school. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025 The Londoner — who was recently listed among Variety‘s Actors to Watch — stars alongside Cillian Murphy in the Toronto-bowing film, playing a troubled young man at a reform school for boys with behavioural difficulties. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025 Skakel made it through reform school and rebuilt his life. — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reform school
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  1. training school
  2. labor camp
  3. prison camp
  4. concentration camp
  5. reformatory
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  • Yarovenko, a fourth-year psychology student at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, had been an instructor at a military training school affiliated with the university.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Wilson, whose training school already requires a parent or guardian to sign minors into a class, hopes the change encourages more young riders to seek professional instruction.
    — Tori Mason, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of training school
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  • Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of labor camp
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  • Navalna is now in a prison camp in a village near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • After their meeting, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security correctional facility in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of prison camp
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  • Some detractors even characterized it as a concentration camp.
    — The Conversation, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of concentration camp
Noun
  • The novel follow six girls at the Home of the Good Shepherd laundry and Catholic reformatory in the 1960s.
    — Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Only this second chance runs through youth reformatories and eventually the California State Prison – outside life is but a pipe dream.
    — Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
Definition of reformatory

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