reformatory
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- n correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
- s tending to reform
reformatory punishment
- When the New Mexico Commission on Youth invited the press on a conducted tour of the state reformatory last spring, only one reporter took advantage of the offer.
- Born in 1934 to a teen-age mother who became a prostitute, Manson drifted from reformatory to jail to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury in the late 1960s.
- This reformatory is not a juvenile boarding school.