reformatory
21reformatory — a. See reformative …
22reformatory — noun (C) AmE or old use a special school where young people who have broken the law are sent; community home BrE …
23reformatory — adj 1. reformative, reforming, corrective, correcting, emendatory, remedial; restorative, restoring, medicinal, restitutive, restitutory; therapeutic, curative, curing, sanative, sanatory, healing, recuperative, recuperatory. 2. reform school,… …
24reformatory — re·for·ma·to·ry …
25reformatory — re•form•a•to•ry [[t]rɪˈfɔr məˌtɔr i, ˈtoʊr i[/t]] adj. n. pl. ries 1) serving or designed to reform 2) Also called reform school a penal institution for reforming young offenders, esp. minors. • Etymology: 1580–90; < L refōrmā(re) to reform+… …
26reformatory — A penal institution for youthful offenders where the emphasis is on reformation of the juvenile s behavior …
27reformatory — A penal institution, sometimes a state institution, intended as a place of imprisonment or confinement of persons convicted of crimes of a less serious nature who appear to be of a type subject to reformation by a proper course of treatment,… …
28reformatory — n. & adj. n. (pl. ies) US & hist. = reform school. adj. reformative …
29Oklahoma State Reformatory — Location Granite, Oklahoma Status operational Security class Medium Capacity 1050 Opened 1910 Managed by Oklahoma Department of …
30Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women — Infobox Prison prison name = Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women location = Toronto, Ontario coordinates = 43.6388°N 79.4231°W status = Closed classification = capacity = opened = 1872 closed = 1969 managed by = director = The Andrew Mercer… …
