reform school

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

reform school
    n 1: correctional institution for the detention and discipline
         and training of young or first offenders [syn:
         {reformatory}, {reform school}, {training school}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
   Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
   depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
   government.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Civil service reform}. See under {Civil}.

   {Reform acts} (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
      1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
      representation in Parliament.

   {Reform school}, a school established by a state or city
      government, for the confinement, instruction, and
      reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
      idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
        {Reformation}.
        [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "reform school":
      POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution,
      borstal school, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp,
      condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp,
      federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse,
      house of correction, house of detention, industrial school,
      internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup,
      maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen,
      penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary,
      prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reformatory, remand school,
      sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth,
      training school