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- noun Plural form of
borstal .
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Examples
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They should be expelling these children from schools and putting them in "borstals" where they can understand just what bullying is all about.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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When I was starting out, there was a Play for Today mentality: things were changing, and we were doing stuff about borstals and reform.
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They are producing problem children, the future unmarried mothers, delinquents, denizens of our borstals, sub-normal educational establishments, prisons, hostels for drifters.
Howard Flight echoes Keith Joseph's 1974 warning that 'our human stock is threatened'
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As they began to filter off into borstals and other institutions, I left them behind to follow in my father's footsteps.
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As we turned 15, my classmates were beginning to find their way into borstals and young offenders 'institutions.
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But when his friends began disappearing into borstals, Corbett decided it was time to take himself in hand and followed his father into the police force.
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PRUs have been dubbed "21st century borstals" and host children expelled from school.
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Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, said today youths convicted over the riots would face having their free travel entitlement scrapped and would be sent to pupil referal units - the modern equivalent of borstals - rather than going to school.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Plus I haven't heard any news of cuts to borstals, so I'm hoping this will all turn out ok.
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In May the Ryan Report detailed decades of abuse in schools, borstals and reformatories run by Religious Orders.
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