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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Irish vocalist Dave King, formerly of the hard rock band Fastway. They are signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records. Prior to forming Flogging...
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  • Tipperary. The Clonmel Institution is significant as it was the only Borstal (youth detention centre) instituted in Ireland and was established on the site...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Boys" (McLagan, Stewart, Wood) – 2:52 Side two "Fly in the Ointment" (instrumental) (Kenney Jones, Lane, McLagan, Wood) – 3:49 "If I'm on the...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • recorded in 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...
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  • jails, 8 sub-jails, 1 borstal school and an open air jail. Central Jail, Kotbhalwal, Jammu Central Jail, Kathidarwara, Srinagar The state also has 10 district...
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  • television. The entire series of Call the Midwife was successful in the ratings this year, with all eight episodes from its fourth series reaching the Top 20...
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    in 1910 by the Prison Commissioners as their second Borstal institution. The existing building opened as a Remand Centre in March 1988. The current institution...
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  • directed 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...
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  • new girlfriend. Doreen and the girlfriend taunt Carol. Annetta is arrested at the convent and sent to the same closed borstal. She assumes Carol informed...
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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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  • 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.) Once they arrive...
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    Brendan Behan (category Alcohol-related deaths in the Republic of Ireland)
    ballads from an early age. At 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...
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  • Central Jail. The other types of jail establishments are Women Jails, Borstal Schools, Open Jails and Special Jails. The following table shows the number of...
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  • Curtis Warren (category British expatriates in the Netherlands)
    once listed on The Sunday Times Rich List. Curtis Warren is the second son of South American born Curtis Aloysius Warren, a seaman with the Norwegian Merchant...
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    Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials, Chapter 9: "Bhangra House". Neville Staple with Tony McMahon, Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials; Chapter...
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