reform school

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Recent Examples on the Web Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024 The story is inspired by a real Florida reform school that hid decades of abuse against its residents. Brian Welk, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024 The children in those reform schools didn’t have that privilege. Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024 In other words, moviegoers are primed to see faces onscreen, and this immersive movie often relies on the behind-the-eyes-and-neck points-of-views of its characters, two teenagers incarcerated at a harshly abusive reform school in Florida. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reform school 
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Noun
  • Metzger ended up in Leeds in an ORT training school learning woodworking and eventually found work in a furniture factory outside Leeds in the country on the Harwood Estate, before moving to a radical Marxist commune in Bristol where Metzger found the politics too extreme.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The building has a rich history, once serving as a gladiator training school.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In July 1942, the Nazis ordered Anne’s older sister, Margot, to return to Germany and report to a labor camp.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.
    Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Scarborough died July 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215, according to prison camp and other historical records.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Navalny died suddenly in a prison camp in the Russian Arctic in February.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Watch on Max The Zone of Interest In 1943, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) was the commandant of Auschwitz who spent his days playing god with the lives of the concentration camp’s innocent prisoners.
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The Hidden Book, by Kirsty Manning Kirsty Manning’s compassionate novel is inspired by a real World War II covert mission in 1940s Austria to smuggle out photographic evidence of the treatment of prisoners at Mauthausen concentration camp.
    Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The two-and-a-half-hour film follows two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024

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