Reformatory

The originator of the plot is one Joseph Sturge, who has founded an establishment, called the Reformatory Institution, in Birmingham, and placed it under the superintendence of another man named Ellis, who formerly presided over a similar concern in London, being a place of resort for young thieves, where they were inveigled, and seduced into the abandonment of their dishonest calling.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.

Great Expectations 1860

The Africanders (Dutch and negro mixed in various proportions) are more or less lazy, dirty, and dressy, and the beautiful girls wear pork-pie hats, and look very winning and rather fierce; but to them the philanthropists at home have provided formidable rivals, by emptying a shipload of young ladies from a 'Reformatory' into the streets of Capetown.

Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845

a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.

Great Expectations 2007

“You may have noticed as you drove up, Mr. Sheppard, that Swope Ranch Reformatory has no security gates, no iron or stone fences.”

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

The boys broke the horses, Swope Reformatory broke the boys.

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

The friends I made at Swope Reformatory are always kept in my heart of hearts, unlocked only at the most private of moments.

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

"East Prussian Reformatory" was written over the gate in golden letters.

Rachel Cusk | Portraits 2011

And at Swope Reformatory, the horses were met and worked daily by a select group of inmates who were part of a special program to break them.

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011