Examples of reformatory

• In the 1920s we had the setting up of the borstals which were supposed to be a more civilised form of custody than the reformatories.

• Few of us will agree that it is due to anything more than mere mischief that many of these lads are in reformatories or prisons.

• One can send boys to reformatories; but, as the minimum period is two years, that would seem far too grave a punishment for this offence.

• There was a committee appointed last year to report on the salaries and conditions of service of officers in industrial schools and reformatories.

• The numbers are, for reformatories forty boys and four girls and for industrial schools eighty-one boys and four girls.

• In the case of certified reformatories half the cost was to be so borne.

• The children cannot wholly be sheltered from the world as it is, even when we shut them away in reformatories and boarding schools.

• Our prisons, our reformatories, our remand homes, are filled to overflowing, many prisoners living three in a cell.

• Today, our prisons have three in a cell, and our reformatories are overfull.

• At that time such schools were called reformatories.

• The only alternative to sending them to prison is to send them to reformatories or industrial schools, and then you run the risk of turning out hardened criminals.

• With the overcrowding of prisons the state came to believe that it would be better to separate habitual drunkenness offenders and put them in what were then known as reformatories.

• Can they be sent to reformatories?

• I know that reformatories are not so bad as they used to be in the past, but the same class of criminals is still sent there.

• I think that, in the direction of the more careful subdivision of various types, we should find the most hopeful development of our industrial homes and reformatories.