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REFORMATORY SCHOOL

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 22 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REFORMATORY SCHOOL , an institution for the See also:

industrial training of juvenile offenders, in which they are lodged, clothed and fed, as well as taught. They are to be distinguished from " industrial See also:schools," which are institutions for potential and not actual delinquents. To reformatory schools in See also:England are sent juveniles up to the See also:age of sixteen who have been convicted of an offence punishable with penal See also:servitude or imprisonment. The See also:order is made by the See also:court before which they are tried; the limit of detention is the age of nineteen. Reformatory schools are regulated by the See also:Children See also:Act 19o8, which repealed the Reformatory Schools Act 1866, as amended by acts of 1872, 1874, 1891, 1893, 1899 and See also:loot. See further JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

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