Definition of Reformatory

an alternative to jail or prison where minors are sent for committing a crime

Examples of Reformatory in a sentence

Both boys were shipped off to a reformatory for naughty children.  

The youth reformatory was better than jail but still had strict rules for the offenders.  

After the war, the fort was used as a reformatory for wayward youth.  

The sixteen year old spent two years in a New York reformatory and two more in jail for drug crimes.  

Escaping from her room at the reformatory, the juvenile delinquent ran away from the institution to be with her lover.  

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