All reform school synonyms
re·form school
R r noun reform school
- house of detention — a place maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, and sometimes for witnesses, awaiting trial.
- detention center — A detention center is a sort of prison, for example, a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
- detention home — a place where juvenile offenders or delinquents are held in custody, esp. temporarily pending disposition of their cases by the juvenile court
- correctional facility — A correctional facility is a prison or similar institution.
- industrial school — a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade or vocational school.
- borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.