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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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The training school was a juvenile correctional facility that served boys and men between the ages of 12 and 21.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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The GoFundMe raised more than $67,000 over its first two days, including large donations from the Idaho Medical Academy, emergency training school Idaho CPR Plus, and Meridian, Middleton, Star and Kuna firefighter unions.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Jan. 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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An additional million had been thrown into arbitrary detention or packed off to penal colonies and labor camps.—
Gary J. Bass,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2018
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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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When her husband was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Girone was eight months pregnant, Claims Conference said.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
28 Feb. 2025
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And on the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, run by a Nazi puppet regime, architect Bogdan Bogdanović crafted perhaps the most optimistic acknowledgment of the will to overcome the 20th century’s darkest hours.—
Michael Allen,
The Conversation,
27 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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