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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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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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 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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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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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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Flogging Molly (redirect from Borstal Beat Records)
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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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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HM Prison Rochester (redirect from Borstal Prison)
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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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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Scum (film) (section Borstal staff)
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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Tell Us the Truth (redirect from Borstal Breakout)
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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Ooh La La (Faces album) (redirect from Borstal Boys)
(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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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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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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Scum (television play) (section Borstal staff)
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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and co-written by Kim Chapiron. It is a Canadian remake of the British borstal film Scum. This is Chapiron's only film to go direct-to-video. Butch, Davis...
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Wetherby Young Offender Institution (redirect from HM Borstal Wetherby)
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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Feltham Prison and Young Offender Institution (redirect from Feltham Borstal)
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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Reginald Beckwith. The film depicts life in a borstal for young offenders. The title comes from the borstal uniform: brown shirt and shorts and a short...
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Prisons in India (section Borstal School)
repair and renovation of old prisons, medical facilities, development of borstal schools, facilities to women offenders, vocational training, modernization...
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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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to 2022, and Shining from 2022 to 2023. Currently he is the drummer for Borstal, Liquid Graveyard, Twilight of the Gods, and United Forces. Barker was...
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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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appeared in with his father, Gordon Ingleby. In the 2002 theatrical release Borstal Boy, based very loosely on the life of Irish poet-activist Brendan Behan...
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