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Recent Examples of reform school
The story follows Elwood and Turner, played by Wilson, two Black teenagers who are sent to a reform school in Florida in the 1960s.
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Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
But few people know the history — and horror — of the real-life reform school both the book and film are based on: the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
But few people know the history — and horror — of the real-life reform school both the book and film are based on: the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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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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Today, women have successfully passed almost all military training schools, subject to the same physical standards as their male counterparts.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
20 Nov. 2024
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Deportation could mean years in jail or labor camps.—
Li Yuan,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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Still, she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Detroit Free Press,
1 Aug. 2024
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The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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There are signs that FSA is doing what Congress intended as prison camps have seen their populations decrease.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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The Nazi symbol was on view on the same day as a major ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by Soviet troops during the Second World War.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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In addition to William and Kate’s appearance in London, King Charles visited Poland for the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation — and, through his visit on Jan. 27, became the first British monarch to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.—
Rachel Burchfield,
People.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
2 Jan. 2025
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Ross’ novel approach tells Whitehead’s tale, based on true events, about two young Black men stuck in a wretched juvenile Florida reformatory school, the site of relentless and sometimes fatal abuse.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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