A reformatory or reformatory school is a youth detention center or an adult correctional facility popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States. It was...
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Elmira Correctional Facility (redirect from Elmira Reformatory)
Elmira.[citation needed] The facility was founded in 1876 as the Elmira Reformatory and run by its controversial superintendent Zebulon Brockway. Acting...
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The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District...
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Eastern Correctional Facility (redirect from Eastern District Reformatory)
prison for men since 1973. The site opened as the "Eastern New York Reformatory". Its imposing main building, with medieval-style turrets and long green...
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Green Bay Correctional Institution (redirect from Wisconsin State Reformatory)
the Fox River. The prison was originally known as the "Wisconsin State Reformatory" (WSR). In 1972, WSR became an adult male, maximum-security prison. The...
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Courts to the reformatory did not stop until the reformatory sentence was repealed in 1994. Around 1978–80, after a major riot at the reformatory, where the...
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The Michigan Reformatory was a state prison for men located in Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, owned and operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections...
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Reformatory for Females, and Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females. Located on King Street West in Toronto, Ontario, the Mercer Reformatory opened...
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Boys' Reformatory is a 1939 American crime film directed by Howard Bretherton and produced by Lindsley Parsons for Monogram Pictures. The screenplay was...
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"Federal Reformatory for Women, School & Chapel" HABS No. WV-113-C, "Federal Reformatory for Women, Cottages" HABS No. WV-113-D, "Federal Reformatory for Women...
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St. Conleth's Reformatory School was a reformatory in Daingean, County Offaly which operated from 1870 - 1973. It was run by the Missionary Oblates of...
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Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, near La...
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Dwight Correctional Center (redirect from Oakdale Reformatory for Women)
Dwight Correctional Center (DCC), also known as Oakdale Reformatory for Women, and Illinois Penitentiary for Women at Dwight, was a women's prison in...
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Minnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud (redirect from Minnesota State Reformatory for Men Historic District)
Minnesota, United States. Established in 1889 as the Minnesota State Reformatory for Men, it is a level four, close-security institution with an inmate...
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Pendleton Correctional Facility (redirect from Indiana Reformatory)
The Pendleton Correctional Facility, formerly known as the Indiana Reformatory, is a state prison located in Fall Creek Township, Madison County, near...
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Mansfield Correctional Institution (redirect from Mansfield Reformatory)
Mansfield, Ohio, adjacent to the property of the historic Ohio State Reformatory. Ohio's Richland Correctional Institution is also located in Mansfield...
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Anamosa State Penitentiary (redirect from Iowa Men's Reformatory Historic District)
Iowa Men's Reformatory Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Show map of Iowa Show map of the United States...
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The Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) is a state prison for women owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Marysville...
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The Oklahoma State Reformatory is a medium-security facility with some maximum and minimum-security housing for adult male inmates. Located off of State...
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Hutchinson Correctional Facility (redirect from Kansas State Industrial Reformatory)
Kansas. The prison was originally known as the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory (KSIR) and designed to house younger offenders. Construction on KSIR...
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Caning (redirect from Reformatory cane)
used on boy inmates and less routinely for girl inmates at the youth reformatories in England and Wales known as approved schools. Many UK approved schools...
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Monroe Correctional Complex (redirect from Washington State Reformatory)
addition to a wide range of paid and volunteer staff. Washington State Reformatory Unit (WSRU) - The original prison at the site; construction began in...
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Reformatory for Boys was a reformatory school in the town of Westbrook, in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, in Australia. The Westbrook Reformatory was...
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Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility (redirect from Bordentown Reformatory)
The Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility is a detention facility, located on Ward Avenue in Chesterfield Township, New Jersey, United States. It...
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August 1993 almost entirely in Mansfield, Ohio, with the Ohio State Reformatory serving as the eponymous penitentiary. The project attracted many stars...
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custody. The nomenclature has changed from "industrial schools" and "reformatory schools" to "children detention schools". There are five such institutions...
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Reformatory is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Jack Holt, Bobby Jordan and Charlotte Wynters. The inmates at...
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Youth detention center (redirect from Juvenile reformatory)
In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or...
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Mary Carpenter (section Reformatories)
The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children...
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