reform school
Youth detention facility
A reform school is an institution where young offenders are sent as an alternative to prison, with the stated goal of rehabilitation through discipline and education.
The term is somewhat dated; such facilities now go by names like juvenile detention center or youth correctional facility.
He spent two years in reform school for stealing cars.
Entering a vehicle
- residentialRelating to housing
- facilitySkill or equipped premises
- juvenile hallDetention for minors
- detention centerPlace for confining detainees
correctional · borstal · training school · group home · state school · lockup · dormitory · campus
Failing in duty
- troubledExperiencing distress or anxiety
- waywardStubbornly self-willed
- juvenileYoung person or animal
- teenagerPerson aged thirteen-nineteen
adolescent · offender · ward · inmate · runaway · truant · incorrigible · at-risk
Professional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- behavioralRelating to conduct
- mentoringAdvising someone less experienced
guidance · treatment · vocational · life skills · anger management · substance abuse · recidivism · reentry
Penalty for an offense
- consequencesResults of actions taken
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
- structureArrangement of interconnected parts
- regimenPrescribed course of treatment
strictness · authority · enforcement · supervision · curfew · solitary · privileges · demerits
Grimly poor, socially unjust
- VictorianOf a prim era
- corporal punishmentInflicting pain as penalty
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
survivors · memoir · investigation · closure · apology · legacy · industrial school
boarding
Entering a vehicle
- residentialRelating to housing
- facilitySkill or equipped premises
- juvenile hallDetention for minors
detention center · correctional · borstal · training school · group home · state school · lockup · dormitory · campus · warden
delinquent
Failing in duty
teenager · adolescent · offender · ward · inmate · runaway · truant · incorrigible · at-risk · underage
counseling
Professional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- behavioralRelating to conduct
mentoring · guidance · treatment · vocational · life skills · anger management · substance abuse · recidivism · reentry · aftercare
punishment
Penalty for an offense
- consequencesResults of actions taken
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
- structureArrangement of interconnected parts
regimen · strictness · authority · enforcement · supervision · curfew · solitary · privileges · demerits · restrictions
Dickensian
Grimly poor, socially unjust
- VictorianOf a prim era
- corporal punishmentInflicting pain as penalty
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
scandal · survivors · memoir · investigation · closure · apology · legacy · industrial school
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- imprisonmentprison, jail, prisoners, cells, captivity
- institutionsacademy, government, public hospitals, museum, public libraries
- detention facilitiesjail, prison, cells, holding cell, inmates
- education historypublic schooling, school reform, one-room school, medieval universities, elementary school
- juvenile delinquencyjuvenile crime, juvenile justice, juvenile court, youth crime, youth offenders
reform schoolpublic school
Free government-run education
magnet school · Montessori school · progressive school · summer camp · normal school
reform schoolprep school
Private pre-college institution
Eton · Exeter · finishing school · Andover · boarding school
transform, deform, reformed, transformation, reformer, reforms, reforming, reformation, deformation