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A reformatory or reformatory school is a youth detention center or an adult correctional facility popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Western countries. [1]

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Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women

The Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women was the first women's (16 years of age or older) prison in Canada.

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Approved School

Approved School is a term formerly used in the United Kingdom for a residential institution to which young people could be sent by a court, usually for committing offences but sometimes because they were deemed to be beyond parental control.

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Birching

Birching is a corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.

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Borstal

A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

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British North America Acts

The British North America Acts 1867–1975 are a series of Acts at the core of the constitution of Canada.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Caning

Caning is a form of corporal punishment consisting of a number of hits (known as "strokes" or "cuts") with a single cane usually made of rattan, generally applied to the offender's bare or clothed buttocks (see spanking) or hand(s) (on the palm).

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Corrections

In criminal justice, particularly in North America, correction, corrections, and correctional, are umbrella terms describing a variety of functions typically carried out by government agencies, and involving the punishment, treatment, and supervision of persons who have been convicted of crimes.

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Domestic worker

A domestic worker, domestic helper, domestic servant, manservant or menial, is a person who works within the employer's household.

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Elmira Prison

The site was selected partially due to its proximity to the Erie Railway and the Northern Central Railway, which crisscrossed in the midst of the city, making it a prime location for a Union Army training and muster point early in the Civil War.

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Heswall

Heswall is a town on the Wirral, in the county of Merseyside, England.

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HMS Wellington (1816)

HMS Wellington was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 September 1816 at Deptford Dockyard.

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Hulk (ship type)

A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea.

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Industrial school

In England, the 1857 Industrial Schools Act was intended to solve problems of juvenile vagrancy, by removing poor and neglected children from their home environment to a boarding school.

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Industrialisation

Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.

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John Bull (magazine)

The original John Bull was a Sunday newspaper established in the City, London EC4, by Theodore Hook in 1820.

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Kentucky State Reformatory

Kentucky State Reformatory is a medium-security prison for adult males.

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Lancaster Industrial School for Girls

The Lancaster Industrial School for Girls was a reform school in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

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Lorton Reformatory

The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District of Columbia, United States.

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Mimico Correctional Centre

The Mimico Correctional Centre was a provincial medium-security correctional facility for adult male inmates serving a sentence of 2-years-less-a-day or less in Ontario, Canada.

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Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (French: Ministère de la Sécurité communautaire et des Services correctionnels) is responsible for law enforcement services in the Canadian province of Ontario, including the Ontario Provincial Police, correctional centres, detention centres/jails (detention centres and jails are essentially the same except the latter are smaller), parole boards, public safety and disaster management (under The Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management).

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Ohio Reformatory for Women

The Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) is a state prison for women owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Marysville, Ohio.

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Ohio State Reformatory

The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States.

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Oklahoma State Reformatory

The Oklahoma State Reformatory is a medium-security facility with some maximum and minimum-security housing for adult male inmates.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Parole

Parole is a temporary release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions before the completion of the maximum sentence period, originating from the French parole ("voice, spoken words").

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Penal labour

Penal labour is a generic term for various kinds of unfree labour which prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour.

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Penology

Penology (from "penal", Latin poena, "punishment" and the Greek suffix -logia, "study of") is a section of criminology that deals with the philosophy and practice of various societies in their attempts to repress criminal activities, and satisfy public opinion via an appropriate treatment regime for persons convicted of criminal offences.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Prison reform

Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, establish a more effective penal system, or implement alternatives to incarceration.

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Prison ship

A prison ship, often more precisely described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees.

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Progressive Era

The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s.

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Reform school

In the United States, a reform school was a penal institution, generally for teenagers.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a river in the North West of England.

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Samuel Hoare Jr

Samuel Hoare Jr (9 August 1751 – 14 July 1825) was a wealthy British Quaker banker and abolitionist born in Stoke Newington, then to the north of London.

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Sentence (law)

A sentence is a decree of punishment of the court in criminal procedure.

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Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Timeline of young people's rights in the United Kingdom

The timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom includes a variety of events that are both political and grassroots in nature.

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Western world

The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.

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Women in the Victorian era

The status of women in the Victorian era was often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions.

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Youth detention center

In American criminal justice systems a youth detention center, also known as a juvenile detention center (JDC),Stahl, Dean, Karen Kerchelich, and Ralph De Sola.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformatory

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