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reformatory

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[ US /ɹɪˈfɔɹməˌtɔɹi/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪfˈɔːmətəɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
  1. correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
ADJECTIVE
  1. tending to reform
    reformative and rehabilitative agencies
    reformatory punishment

How To Use reformatory In A Sentence

  • Most say they want to testify about their childhood experiences in residential care, mainly in industrial and reformatory schools.
  • Previously only those who suffered abuse in industrial schools, reformatory schools, orphanages and children's homes for which public bodies had supervisory or inspection functions were included.
  • Its defendants praised the reformatory emphasis of Pentonville, its generally softer punishment regime, its system of solitary confinement, and its emphasis on prisoners' self-development.
  • If incarceration is necessary, then the defence submits that upper reformatory confinement is adequate penalty.
  • Rehabilitation for the youthful is unlikely if imprisonment is served in a penitentiary rather than a reformatory.
  • In total, 331 male witnesses reported that 445 people associated with industrial or reformatory schools abused them, with 402 males and 43 females being identified.
  • In “Earth's Holocaust” we get the first result of Hawthorne's insight into the demonianism of reformatory schemers who forget that the centre of every true reform is the heart. A Study Of Hawthorne
  • reformatory punishment
  • This idea of the United Nations as a reformatory is an illusion. The Role of Free China in the Free World
  • Anti-Mason inspired social policies favored by Whigs, such as liquor and sabbatarian legislation, funding of educational and reformatory institutions, and to some extent the antislavery impulse of the party's northern wing.
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