Find another word for borstal. In this page you can discover 3 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for borstal, like: reform-school, Coldingley and Swaleside.
Borstal system seems to encourage the ' Daddy ' system as a way of maintaining order whilst Archer's style merely fuels resentment.
Borstal trainees were released at the outbreak of war and premises converted to other uses.
It was named after the former convict prison at Borstal, Kent, where the system was pioneered.
The Borstal scheme of a juvenile-adult reformatory has been to some extent planned on the institutions of Elmira reformatory in the state of New York and of Concord in Massachusetts (see Juvenile Offenders).
It is now passed at a public works prison; either at Aylesbury (females), Borstal, Dartmoor, Parkhurst or Portland.