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Then there were the writers of country life, such as T. F. Powys, who brightened its dullness with violent incident, and to whom village life appeared to be a mixture of Borstal and Colney Hatch.
From the archive, 19 January 1929: Modern novelists under attack
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It's one of a sequence of stories set in Boleskine House - think Harry Potter in a Clark Ashton Smith cosmology, but set in a Borstal.
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A pal of mine went to Borstal, aged 17, for unlawful sexual intercourse with a female under the age of 16; she was 15.
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So why should they change, they have it made in their heads [there is no mind] no incentive to change, now a good dose of water at 5 degs C. would be a good start, and then use that excess energy that is desperate for dissipating, should be as it was done back in the 30′s, Borstal or boys army.
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Dennis is capricious, moody and attached to his mum; ex Borstal-Boy Jeffry is more overtly aggressive and masculine.
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Eventually the actors came up with an idea for a film; something about the lives they led and a lad they'd known who broke out of Borstal.
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At that time, many of the recruits were boys who had been placed in front of youth courts and given the option of joining the Forces or spending several years in Borstal.
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It was mentioned above that there have always been bad lads and girls and someone else mentioned Borstal.
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As the declaration of hostilities was announced in 1939, the gates of the country's prisons swung open for any inmate with less than three months left to serve and all the Borstal boys who had completed six months.
London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout
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Meantime, idling behind the net curtains at the local greasy spoon sits the mythic Bronco Bullfrog (Sam Shepherd), a Borstal runaway who schemes to rob a goods train and abscond with the loot.
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