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Recent Examples of reform school
This Morning, This Evening (a portrait of a rural Alabama community in which Ross embedded himself), to Nickel Boys, his impressionistic bravura fiction feature debut about two Black boys sent to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The immersive and emotionally powerful movie, up for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, devised a new way to portray point-of-view onscreen for this story of two boys abused at a southern reform school.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
It’s set in Florida in the early 1960s at a reform school.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Faith on death row functioned like reform school, though the graduates all died.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The immersive and emotionally powerful movie, up for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, devised a new way to portray point-of-view onscreen for this story of two boys abused at a southern reform school.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
It’s set in Florida in the early 1960s at a reform school.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Faith on death row functioned like reform school, though the graduates all died.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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Hollywood Casino-Aurora is looking to hire for positions including food and beverage staff, security and surveillance positions, table games and slot attendants as well as dealers, both those who are experienced and those who are willing to go to dealer training school, according to the release.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2025
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Republican purists wanted a simple, technical training school that kept the costs low and, more importantly, kept the officer corps from evolving into an aristocracy.—
Ryan Shaw / Made by History,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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His Polish father had fought for the Allied Armed Forces, while his Belarusian mother had survived a Nazi labor camp.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.—
Ethan Baron,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Migrants being held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are now being permitted to speak to their attorneys by phone, an official for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a court filing.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group was later found, and Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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And nearly half of Americans surveyed couldn't name a single German concentration camp or ghetto.—
Lee Cowan,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2025
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Due’s novel follows a 12-year-old boy in the 1950s sentenced to an infamous reformatory where ghosts in the halls tell stories about the boys that have been abused and gone missing there.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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James Thompson remembered the words of the state psychologist he was required to visit weekly in Charlotte after being released from the state reformatory.—
Essence,
Essence,
13 Feb. 2025
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