reform school

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Recent Examples of reform school When Hattie’s grandson, Elwood Curtis, is unjustly charged with car theft, he’s sent to the Nickel Academy, a brutal reform school based on the real-life Dozier School in Florida where, in 2013, skeletons of Black boys were discovered in unmarked graves. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024 Nickel Boys brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two friends surviving a Florida reform school together to the screen. Fred Topel, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024 The boys endure abuse at the reform school and Ross does not shy away from depicting it. Fred Topel, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2024 Most notably, the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about two young Black men bonded by the horrific experience of being stuck in a 1960s reform school in Florida, will split the titular roles between two categories. Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reform school 
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Noun
  • 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
  • This summer, Chechnya will open one of the largest special forces training schools in the world.
    Neil Hauer, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2019
Noun
  • Those accused of disloyalty or dissent face brutal punishments, including imprisonment in labor camps, torture, or execution.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Before my parents were liberated they were imprisoned in labor camps.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024
Noun
  • He had been injured during the war and spent time in a Confederate prison camp.
    Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Todd Chrisley, 56, is at a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, Fla., with a release date in September 2032, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons website.
    Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • After all, tourists from around the world pay to see sites like the Chernobyl in Ukraine, ground zero in New York City and former Nazi concentration camps in Poland.
    Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The film, which includes a wrenching visit to the Majdanek concentration camp, is deftly peppered with insightful strands of Jewish history and culture.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 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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