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an alternative to jail or prison where minors are sent for committing a crime

reformatory, reform school, training school(adj)

correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders

reformative, reformatory(adj)

tending to reform

"reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment"

serving to raise or adjust something to some standard or proper condition

the belief that manual labor was a reformatory experience for convicted felons, who would learn the value of hard work

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