reformatory

Etymology

adj

  1. Of, pertaining to, or conducive to reform; reformative.
    Other reformatory schools might not strike that balance between reform and education. 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 49

noun

  1. A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.
    It was the nicest-looking property Elwood had ever seen—a real school, a good one, not the forbidding reformatory he’d conjured the last few weeks. 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 45

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