From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\ (-t?*r?), adjective Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\, noun; pl. {-ries} (-r?z). An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. --Eng. Cyc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment" [syn: {reformative}]
noun
1: 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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