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Recent Examples of reform school
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.
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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
Nearly every scene is filmed through the eyes of its leads, two Black boys who have been sent away to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
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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
Nearly every scene is filmed through the eyes of its leads, two Black boys who have been sent away to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
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For decades, advocates for the disabled have called for closing the training school.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2025
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Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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Brünnlitz was a German labor camp, and as Spielberg showed in his film, a list was created with names of those who would be relocated there.—
Danuta Hamlin,
Fox News,
25 Jan. 2025
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Two cousins are sent to prison camps, while two remain free.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
2 Apr. 2025
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His award-winning memoir, A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America (2005, Penguin Random House), detailed his military journey, including reuniting with his father who spent twelve years in prison camps in postwar Vietnam.—
Quang X. Pham,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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He was driven to a nearby concentration camp and held overnight.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Photo: Courtesy of Hannah Jackson Eighty years ago today, on April 11, 1945, Morris was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 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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Due’s novel follows a 12-year-old boy in the 1950s sentenced to an infamous reformatory where ghosts in the halls tell stories about the boys that have been abused and gone missing there.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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