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In his early attempts to improve the reformatories, Dr. Miller instituted new rules, including one requiring any authority who placed a youngster in isolation to remain with him or her until the confinement ended.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2015

In 1972, in a controversial action that would bring sweeping changes to juvenile corrections across the United States, Dr. Miller began shutting down Massachusetts’s reformatories.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2015

In examining the state child-care system in Ireland, the series brought to light a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children known as industrial schools.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2012

But, like Mayan, he was caught and spent time in reformatories.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2010

At the present time one not infrequently finds testimonials from convents, asylums, reformatories, and the like, asserting the value of some particularly advertised remedy for this disease.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin