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boot camp
A station where Navy or Marine recruits receive basic training
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borstal
(Historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
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house of correction
An institution dedicated to the management and rehabilitation of persons perceived to be at risk of becoming criminals.
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reformatory
An institution to which young offenders convicted of lesser crimes are sent for training and discipline intended to reform rather than punish them
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training school
An institution for detaining and reeducating juvenile offenders
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military-school
Attributive form of military school
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  • It has a public library, which has belonged to the township since 1857; and here are the Lyman School for Boys, a state industrial institution (opened in 1886 and succeeding a state reform school opened in 1846), and the Westboro Insane Hospital (homoeopathic, 1884), which is under the general supervision of the State Board of Insanity.

  • Augustine, a hospital for the insane at Chattahoochee and a reform school at Marianna, all wholly supported by the state, and a Confederate soldiers' and sailors' home at Tallahassee, which is partially supported by the state.

  • The penitentiaries are at Huntsville and Rusk, and there is a reform school for juvenile offenders at Gainesville.

  • These are a state prison at Deer Lodge, managed by contract; a reform school at Miles City, an industrial school at Butte, an orphans' home at Twin Bridges, the soldiers' home at Columbia Falls, a school for deaf and blind at Boulder, and an insane asylum at Warm Springs, managed by contract.

  • Charitable Institutions, &c. - The state maintains a school for the blind at Gary, a school for deaf mutes at Sioux Falls, a tuberculosis sanatorium at Custer, a general hospital for the insane at Yankton, a school for the feeble-minded at Redfield, a soldiers' home at Hot Springs, a reform school at Plankinton, and a penitentiary at Sioux Falls.

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