borstal training
(British, legal, historical) The sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.
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(British, legal, historical) The sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.
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(British, Ireland) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
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(historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
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(UK) A way up a hill in the South Downs.
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(chiefly, North America) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
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(UK, transitive) To transfer (an incarcerated juvenile offender) to an adult prison earlier than the usual age of 18 or 21.