Which preposition to use with reformatories
At Bristol she bought a house for a reformatory for girls; and there her friend, Miss Carpenter, faithfully and energetically carries out her own and Lady Byron's aims, which were one and the same.
At the request of his wife I dined at their house with twenty-five young culprits, whom J.S. has in his Reformatory at Stoke, near Bromsgrove.
This is a Reformatory, and there's nothing very reformatory about keeping him to plan murder and suicide because he has been (quite unjustifiably) transported as well as flogged and imprisoned.
A superintendent of the Elmira Reformatory after years of experience said that he had never seen a criminal who felt remorse; while criminals usually regretted being caught, they always excused their crime.
Next day she was found, taken before a magistrate and sent to a reformatory as a vagrant until she was sixteen.
Drunkenness among the parents of 38 per cent of the prisoners in a reformatory of this kind is a high and a serious percentage.