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An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.

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A detention facility designed to change criminal behavior.

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

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An institution to which juvenile offenders are sent with a view to their reformation.

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A reformatory is a juvenile prison where legal minors are sent by (juvenile or general) courts to spend a custodial sentence, separate from the bad example of and abuse by adult (often hardened) convicts, usually gender-separated (mainly boys).

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