Meanings of reformatory institutions in English

She had heard of reformatory institutions, and of discreet persons called matrons who managed them.

The Attorney-General has a supervisory charge of the penal and reformatory institutions which are Federal in character.

They are greatly in demand all over Germany for home missionaries and superintendents of prisons and reformatory institutions.

The latter was the forerunner of the juvenile reformatory institutions established later by practically all of the American States.

"We have," I answered, "Reform Schools, Houses of Refuge, Juvenile Asylums, and other reformatory institutions; but I am afraid I must say, nothing like this.