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Recent Examples of reform school
Nickel Boys follows the friendship between two young men sent to a segregated reform school in Florida in the 1960s.
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Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
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
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Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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Much of the interior remains unchanged from its time as a watch training school.Anthony DeMarco, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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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
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Navalny died suddenly in a prison camp in the Russian Arctic in February.Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Reinhold Kulle was an SS member in the elite Death’s Head division and a guard at Gross-Rosen concentration camp.Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 Sep. 2024
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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
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On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
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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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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reform%20school. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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