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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\ (-t?*r?), a.
     Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. {-ries} (-r?z).
     An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to
           reformatories instead of to prisons.     --Eng. Cyc.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reformatory
       adj : tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative
             agencies"; "reformatory punishment" [syn: {reformative}]
       n : correctional institution for the detention and discipline
           and training of young or first offenders [syn: {reform
           school}, {training school}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "reformatory":
     POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution,
     borstal school, bridewell, brig, can, cell, concentration camp,
     condemned cell, cooler, death cell, death house, death row,
     detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol,
     guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention,
     industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep,
     labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison,
     minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony,
     penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pokey, prison,
     prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, remand school,
     sponging house, state prison, stir, stockade, the hole, tollbooth,
     training school
  
  

















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