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- noun Plural form of
reformatory .
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Examples
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A nine-year government inquiry investigated a sixty-year period when more than 35,000 children were placed in a network of "reformatories,""industrial schools," and "workhouses."
Frank Schaeffer: We Need Freedom From Religion Not Just Freedom of Religion Frank Schaeffer 2011
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A nine-year government inquiry investigated a sixty-year period when more than 35,000 children were placed in a network of "reformatories," "industrial schools," and "workhouses."
Frank Schaeffer: We Need Freedom From Religion Not Just Freedom of Religion Frank Schaeffer 2011
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A nine-year government inquiry investigated a sixty-year period when more than 35,000 children were placed in a network of "reformatories,""industrial schools" and "workhouses."
Frank Schaeffer: Republicans and "Christians" vs. Gays Frank Schaeffer 2010
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A nine-year government inquiry investigated a sixty-year period when more than 35,000 children were placed in a network of "reformatories,""industrial schools" and "workhouses."
Frank Schaeffer: Republicans and "Christians" vs. Gays Frank Schaeffer 2010
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These institutions were "industrial schools" "reformatories" and "orphanages"; in other words, the children were considered outcasts and, therefore, expendable.
No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History 2009
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"But just bring the donations to the right places, such as reformatories or orphanages."
News24 2008
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Arrests for streetwalking “skyrocketed across the nation,” and most of the arrested women were sent to reformatories and workhouses.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Two years past, he had managed to work a parole from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville for a celebrity convict author, a man who had been in and out of reformatories and jails since he was sixteen.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The orchestra's monthly visits to prisons and reformatories make an even bigger impression.
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Two years past, he had managed to work a parole from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville for a celebrity convict author, a man who had been in and out of reformatories and jails since he was sixteen.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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