What's the difference between borstal and reformatory?

Borstal


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During his teens and twenties, he did time in various prisons, borstals and detention centres for car theft and burglary.
  • (2) She was scathing about the large salaries being paid to BBC executives, programmes such as Dog Borstal and Britain's Most Embarrassing Pets, and the controversial decision to drop Arlene Phillips as a judge from Strictly Come Dancing, which she said could "only be a kind of ageism".
  • (3) On hearing his confession, Karl soothed young Craig with gifts, and hushed him with trips to remote wastelands for story time with Karl: Collected Borstal Tales.
  • (4) A separate email to governors from the Prison Service's national operations group asks them to "watch the mood and atmosphere in your prison" in the aftermath of the alleged assault on three people, which it says took place at Cookham Wood young offenders institution at Borstal in Kent.
  • (5) When I was sent to borstal, it was she who made sure I got housing benefit – otherwise I would have lost my flat.
  • (6) had been sentenced to detention centre, approved school, or Borstal training, and 20% had been sentenced to prison.
  • (7) "I missed Dog Borstal, I don't know whether you managed to catch it," joked Thompson.
  • (8) A shoplifting offence took him to borstal for the first time, and although he joined the RAF in 1947, he was soon back behind bars after a break-in at a chemist's shop.
  • (9) I’m thinking of tightly woven synthetic navy blue carpet tilex, hollow white polystyrene ceiling squares, the orangey pine front counter with full gloss varnish, laminated signs, Bisto-brown formica stackable tables, thick-ribbed radiators painted the muddy industrial green of borstals, and shelving built from clanging beige Meccano.
  • (10) After graduating with a congratulatory first in Literae Humaniores (classics) from Corpus Christi, Oxford, and after qualifying for the bar, he spent six months as a drama master at a borstal.
  • (11) He is now 47, and one of his earliest memories was the forbidding presence of Dover Borstal to which, as a treat, his grandfather would take him.
  • (12) I’d grown up being told I’d make nothing of my life and borstal was, and still is, part of the expected journey – many of the boys I knew left care for jail, while the girls left with babies.
  • (13) "He met Bruce Reynolds in borstal and it all went uphill and downhill from there," he said.
  • (14) Jenny Molloy, co-author of Hackney Child, matron in ITV’s Bring Back Borstal, patron of BASW England Went into care when she was nine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jenny Molloy (left), formerly known under the pseudonym Hope Daniels, with her daughter and granddaughter.
  • (15) A case-controlled study was carried out on all the 51 juvenile delinquents found in a point prevalence survey of a Nigerian Borstal Remand Centre.
  • (16) By the time he was 17, he was in Wormwood Scrubs, awaiting allocation to borstal.
  • (17) The Garden House Hotel in Cambridge will always be remembered by those of us who were students in 1970 for the riot that year that resulted in prison sentences for six students and what was then called "Borstal training" for two more who were under 21.
  • (18) Asked by Thompson to provide examples – "You need to give me a couple of shockers I can respond to" – she cited Britain's Most Embarrassing Pets, Britain's Tallest Man, Britain's Worst Teeth, Dog Borstal, and Help Me Anthea I'm Infested, presented by Anthea Turner.
  • (19) Members of group b were also in institutions: these included psychiatric hospitals and prisons, as well as borstals and approved schools.

Reformatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
  • (n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The defunct state reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, is a cold and imposing place, one part cathedral to two parts Castle Frankenstein.
  • (2) The juveniles in the reformatory for girls were surveyed for the incidence of venereal diseases (VD) and for a history of intravenous drug use.
  • (3) Many of the practices and beliefs of the Washingtonian Total Abstinence Movement were adopted by reformatory homes for "drunkards" that were established in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia in the mid-1800s.
  • (4) When finally open public welfare was translated into reality during 1918-1933 as a result of the zealous efforts on the part of the reformatory psychiatrists, this was mainly done to save cost, whereas Kolb's original aims were largely lost in the process.
  • (5) The influence of reformatory educational theory on both the pre-scientific educational theories concerning cripples before 1920 and the experimental-psychological and special educational concepts until 1929 are outlined.
  • (6) In the reformatory for girls anti-HBc was detected in 40.0% of 11 girls who were exposed to VD and in 7.0% of 43 girls who were not exposed to VD.
  • (7) Full coverage of these groups by means of X-ray screening, when they are held prisoners during the investigation period, makes it possible to detect all cases with active tuberculosis, to prevent the admission of undetected patients to the reformatory schools and thereby to stop the transmission of tuberculous infection.
  • (8) However, the full significance of his reformatory proposals was not realised at that time.
  • (9) April A groundbreaking documentary series, States of Fear, by the Irish broadcaster RTE, exposes abuse of children in church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.
  • (10) More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from dysfunctional families – a category that often included unmarried mothers – were sent to Ireland's austere network of industrial schools, reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s until the last facilities shut in the 1990s.
  • (11) Twenty-five male inmates of the Petersburg Federal Reformatory served as Ss.
  • (12) Appropriate three-stage chemotherapy with the use of surgical interventions, if indicated permits one to achieve in the reformatory institutions of the Ministry of Home Affairs a high efficacy of treatment of ++newly-diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients, which concurrently significantly decreases their epidemic danger for the general population when they are let free.
  • (13) St William's was founded in 1865 by Catholic benefactors and run locally as a "reformatory school" for boys.
  • (14) One fan we met was a former inmate of Mansfield Reformatory who had renounced a life of drugs and crime to become a trainee pastor, and who considered The Shawshank Redemption to be a touchstone text on his road to salvation.
  • (15) A number of enteric viruses isolated from swine in the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories and the Mimico Reformatory herds were grouped serologically and compared with previously described porcine enteroviruses.
  • (16) Sera from 69 adult prostitutes, 139 juveniles in the reformatory for boys, and 63 juveniles in the reformatory for girls, were collected between 1986 and 1987 in Fukuoka City.
  • (17) He also underlines that the degree the reformatory functions of the organism are influenced by the interference of chronic complications which he describes.
  • (18) Twenty-five inmates of the Petersburg Federal Reformatory Drug Abuse Program, Petersburg, Virginia were selected as Ss in this study.
  • (19) I was a glue-addicted delinquent [her misdemeanours earned her an eight-month stay in a reformatory].
  • (20) Children in industrial schools and reformatories were treated more like convicts and slaves than people with human rights, it said.

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