reformatories

reformatories
State institutions for the confinement of juvenile delinquents.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


reformatories
State institutions for the confinement of juvenile delinquents.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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