How To Use Borstal In A Sentence
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It acts more like a housemaster in a progressive borstal.
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‘I thought he must be on day-release from borstal,’ recalls Belcher.
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Frequently Ruth wondered why he hadn't ended up in borstal or some other institution.
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When someone informed on him he was charged with handling stolen goods and sentenced to one year in borstal.
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We performed in schools, old people's homes, borstals and prisons.
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But without rehabilitation, the juvenile car gangs are likely to return from the modern day borstals, more menacing than before.
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This film almost certainly paints a truer picture of day-to-day borstal life than the earlier film's rosily optimistic outlook.
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He has left a trail of unwelcome headlines and a few bruises to boot, a roll model for borstal bowsies, certainly not juveniles who have not reached the age of selectivity but rather see him as a ‘star’ to be imitated.
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The governor of a borstal institution tries to reform a group of juvenile delinquents through sympathy rather than punishment.
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From approved school he graduated through detention centre to borstal, finally winding up in prison.
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He would have remained a borstal boy with a grudge against society who would probably have ended up in prison for a single sadistic killing.
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The governor of a borstal institution tries to reform a group of juvenile delinquents through sympathy rather than punishment.
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After its aristocratic owners moved on in the late 1930s, the house served in turns as a farming school, a centre for displaced people, a boys' private school and a borstal.
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The film focuses on two borstal ‘trainees’ - a euphemistic term for inmates - with differing approaches to beating the system.
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Simply put, things don't exactly go well at borstal.
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In 1846 young offenders were separated from adults and sent to industrial schools, the precursors of borstal institutions, for treatment and rehabilitation.
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After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
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When I was young, kids who had been to borstal had a mark on their temple with Indian ink so you knew who they were.
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After a spell in borstal he was introduced to influential figures in the London underworld of the mid-60s.
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Reformatories were set up countrywide and referred to as 'borstals'.
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He was involved in crime from an early age, being sent to approved schools and borstal before ending up prison.
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Let's build more hospitals, prisons and borstals.
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For years, he had been in and out of the authorities' grasp, in borstal, and on a particular Swedish brand of psychiatric probation.
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In 1941, he was sent to Borstal for breaking into a Waterloo hosiery store and was then given a 15-month prison sentence at Wandsworth prison for shopbreaking.
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His protectors had sprung the 14-year-old Tyson from borstal on the promise of giving him a stable home and schooling.
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The punishment that we all most feared was being sent to a borstal.
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Then it felt like everything stopped, because I felt like I had no support and was really depressed for a few months about the prospect of going to borstal or somewhere.
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These schools, which are often like Victorian borstals, still exist.
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They formed part of a raucous theatre group called Van Load, visiting borstals, pubs and the occasional prison to bring theatre to the masses.
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After a couple of stints at an approved school and a dose of borstal he had worked on building sites as a labourer and dumper truck driver.
THE OPEN DOOR
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Famously banned from the BBC's Play for Today slot in the 1970s, Clarke's harrowing drama about life inside a borstal was remade two years later as an equally notorious film.
