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Recent Examples of reform school
Nearly every scene is filmed through the eyes of its leads, two Black boys who have been sent away to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
Elwood is sentenced to time at the Nickel Academy, a reform school for boys.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
Elwood is sentenced to time at the Nickel Academy, a reform school for boys.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
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For decades, advocates for the disabled have called for closing the training school.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2025
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For a decade beginning in 1966, authorities shuttered schools and universities, sent intellectuals to labor camps, and effectively suspended scientific research.—
Jonathan Gruber,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Sep. 2019
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Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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In anticipation of these cuts, BOP Director Colette Peters has already closed FCI Dublin and six male prison camps, signaling the likelihood of further closures and consolidations.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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The View From The Ground: A Federal Prison Crisis Federal prison camps are often portrayed as the safest and easiest to manage within theFederal Bureau of Prisons.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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They were imprisoned and killed in concentration camps.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The tribal vilification of the Japanese during WWII facilitated support for the internment of 120,000 Japanese and American citizens in concentration camps, marking one of the most disgraceful eras in America’s history.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2025
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One of the teens, Elwood Curtis, sees his dreams of attending college shattered when he is sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South.—
Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
24 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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