reform school

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Recent Examples of reform school Nickel Boys follows the friendship between two young men sent to a segregated reform school in Florida in the 1960s. Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024 Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024 The story is inspired by a real Florida reform school that hid decades of abuse against its residents. Brian Welk, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024 The children in those reform schools didn’t have that privilege. Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reform school 
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Noun
  • Much of the interior remains unchanged from its time as a watch training school.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Metzger ended up in Leeds in an ORT training school learning woodworking and eventually found work in a furniture factory outside Leeds in the country on the Harwood Estate, before moving to a radical Marxist commune in Bristol where Metzger found the politics too extreme.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • There are regulations to make sure Virginia's 235 migrant labor camps have safe working conditions.
    Karri Peifer, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
  • In July 1942, the Nazis ordered Anne’s older sister, Margot, to return to Germany and report to a labor camp.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In 1992, the former prison camp became a national historic site later run by the National Park Service.
    Emilie Ikeda, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Scarborough died July 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215, according to prison camp and other historical records.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Reinhold Kulle was an SS member in the elite Death’s Head division and a guard at Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Watch on Max The Zone of Interest In 1943, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) was the commandant of Auschwitz who spent his days playing god with the lives of the concentration camp’s innocent prisoners.
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The two-and-a-half-hour film follows two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024

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