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Recent Examples of reform school
Sunshine state panhandle reform school – a process that required a lot of trust, on all sides of the camera.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
The scene primarily involves the character Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), who has come to visit her grandson, Elwood, at the reform school Nickel Academy, where the boy has been sent unjustly.
—Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The difference here is that director Ross knows just how much there is to mine in the faces and body language of a roomful of reform school residents awaiting punishment, or in the quiet, devastated aftermath.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
The film, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, is a portrait of two Black boys who are sent to a violent reform school closely modeled on Dozier.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
The scene primarily involves the character Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), who has come to visit her grandson, Elwood, at the reform school Nickel Academy, where the boy has been sent unjustly.
—Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The difference here is that director Ross knows just how much there is to mine in the faces and body language of a roomful of reform school residents awaiting punishment, or in the quiet, devastated aftermath.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
The film, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, is a portrait of two Black boys who are sent to a violent reform school closely modeled on Dozier.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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Adam Penner, president of Harv’s Air pilot training school, said the two students, a man and a woman, were practicing takeoffs and landings.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
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But this time, when the familiar group then comes face-to-face inside the recognizable Red Center, home to the handmaids training school and familiar season-one stomping ground for the series, there was no violence.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
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As a result, practitioners of Falun Gong have faced persecution in China, with thousands imprisoned or sent to labor camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
13 May 2025
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They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.—
Sonali Kolhatkar,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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In late September, Burke, 81, had checked himself into the low-security federal prison camp at Thomson, Illinois, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Contraband phones are easy to get into prison camps.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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So now our unelected state attorney general has proposed a concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades with a convenient airstrip for hustling people out of the country without due process.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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Millions of people have visited Europe’s concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2025
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One of the teens, Elwood Curtis, sees his dreams of attending college shattered when he is sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South.—
Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
24 Feb. 2025
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