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Recent Examples of reform school
The film, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, is a portrait of two Black boys who are sent to a violent reform school closely modeled on Dozier.
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Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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In the summer of 1942, the the command opened a combat training school at Tarrant Field for pilots on the heavy bombers being produced next door at the Consolidated Vultee plant (now Lockheed Martin).—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 May 2025
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The Dominican Republic’s free zones also house technical training schools, which the country has invested in to help train and recruit employees for companies.—
Vanessa Yurkevich,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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The weekend games paid tribute to Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps when they were forced to relocate during WWII.—
Emilie Ikeda,
NBC News,
29 Oct. 2024
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Her father, Charles M. Gavin III, served with the 84th Infantry Division during World War II and helped liberate two concentration camps.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
24 May 2025
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With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2025
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One of the teens, Elwood Curtis, sees his dreams of attending college shattered when he is sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South.—
Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reform%20school. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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