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    A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India...
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  • Look up borstal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A borstal or borstal school is a type of juvenile detention centre in India and formerly in the United...
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    Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour. Construction started...
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  • Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three...
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    Borstal is a place in the Medway unitary authority of Kent in South East England. Originally a village near Rochester, it has become absorbed by the expansion...
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  • Borstal Boy is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Peter Sheridan, based on the 1958 autobiographical novel of the same name by Brendan Behan. In 1941...
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  • The Borstal (Czech: Pasťák) is a Czech drama film about a teacher newly assigned to youth detention center. It was made by director Hynek Bočan in 1968...
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    known as Borstal Convict Prison and Borstal Institution) is a male Young Offenders Institution, founded in 1874, and located in the Borstal area of Rochester...
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    the hard rock band Fastway. They are signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records. Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dublin-born Dave King was...
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  • St. Patrick's Borstal Institution, Clonmel, was established in Ireland in 1906 as a place of detention for young male offenders aged between 16 and 21...
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  • John Blundell. The film portrays the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The script was originally filmed as a television play for the BBC's Play...
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  • Dog Borstal is a BBC series produced from 6 March 2006 to 9 December 2008, where three dog trainers dealt with particularly poorly-behaved dogs. It was...
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  • Borstal Boy is a play adapted by Frank McMahon from the 1958 autobiographical novel of Irish nationalist Brendan Behan of the same title. The play debuted...
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  • the studio. Tell Us the Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout", on the live side of the album. The album peaked at number 25...
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  • Borstal Boy may refer to: Borstal Boy, an autobiographical novel published in 1958 by Brendan Behan Borstal Boy (play), the 1967 play adaptation by playwright...
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  • The Borstal Institute for juveniles now called The Senior Correctional Centre is a juvenile correction institute under the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS)...
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  • (McLagan, Stewart, Wood) – 3:05 (lead singers: Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood) "Borstal Boys" (McLagan, Stewart, Wood) – 2:52 Side two "Fly in the Ointment" (instrumental)...
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  • have existed since the beginning of the 20th century: the first borstal opened at Borstal, Kent in 1902. The regime of a Young Offender Institution is similar...
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    Drama in Manchester and appeared as Happy Boy in the stage production of Borstal Boy which toured the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007, and New York City...
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  • are escorted via van to a British borstal. (The title sequence shows Davis trying to escape from an "open" borstal and being rounded up by the warders...
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  • Nahan, Sirmaur Himachal Pradesh also has 2 district jails, 8 sub-jails, 1 borstal school and an open air jail. Central Jail, Kotbhalwal, Jammu Central Jail...
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    and was taken over in 1910 by the Prison Commissioners as their second Borstal institution. The existing building opened as a Remand Centre in March 1988...
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    the age of 16, Behan joined the IRA, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and imprisonment in Ireland. During...
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    HMS Ceres, Wetherby was introduced into the Prison System in 1958 as a Borstal. Since that time there have been many changes in its role from an open...
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  • repair and renovation of old prisons, medical facilities, development of borstal schools, facilities to women offenders, vocational training, modernization...
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    Variety. Retrieved 16 October 2024. Schwarzbaum, Lisa (6 March 2002). "Borstal Boy". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 16 October 2024. "Coolockland". Irish...
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  • the nearby village of Borstal to house the workforce. It later became a prison for young offenders and gave its name to the Borstal Institution system of...
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    was expelled from the school at the age of 13. At 15 he was sent to a borstal after repeatedly being caught stealing, later saying that he "had a great...
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  • young persons' prison and Young Offenders Institution in the village of Borstal (near Rochester) in Kent, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's...
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    aspects of Borstal found their way into the main prison system, including open prisons and housemasters (renamed assistant governors), and many Borstal-trained...
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