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The family was living on the grounds of a reform school for boys, outside the town of Stevenstone, where his father had taken a job as a janitor.
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Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
She’d been arrested on felony and misdemeanor robbery charges and served her three-year sentence at the Catholic reform school instead of at a juvenile detention facility.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
The private orphanages, reform schools, and asylums that remain have changed their branding to appear more palatable to modern audiences.
—Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
In 1964, shortly after her release from reform school, Sill’s mother died from alcoholism and her stepfather began locking her out of the house.
—Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
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Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
She’d been arrested on felony and misdemeanor robbery charges and served her three-year sentence at the Catholic reform school instead of at a juvenile detention facility.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
The private orphanages, reform schools, and asylums that remain have changed their branding to appear more palatable to modern audiences.
—Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
In 1964, shortly after her release from reform school, Sill’s mother died from alcoholism and her stepfather began locking her out of the house.
—Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reform%20school. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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