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How to use borstal in a sentence

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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.
The governor of a borstal institution tries to reform a group of juvenile delinquents through sympathy rather than punishment.
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.
His protectors had sprung the 14-year-old Tyson from borstal on the promise of giving him a stable home and schooling.
This film almost certainly paints a truer picture of day-to-day borstal life than the earlier film's rosily optimistic outlook.
He was involved in crime from an early age, being sent to approved schools and borstal before ending up prison.
From approved school he graduated through detention centre to borstal, finally winding up in prison.
When someone informed on him he was charged with handling stolen goods and sentenced to one year in borstal.
For years, he had been in and out of the authorities' grasp, in borstal, and on a particular Swedish brand of psychiatric probation.
The punishment that we all most feared was being sent to a borstal.
In Pakistan, two borstal institutions were under construction in Haripur and Bannu, North-West Frontier Province.
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.
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.
They had passed through probation, borstal, approved schools and prison.
In 1846 young offenders were separated from adults and sent to industrial schools, the precursors of borstal institutions, for treatment and rehabilitation.
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.
The Criminal Justice Act 1982 abolished the borstal system in the UK, introducing youth custody centres instead.
As of 31 December 2014, there were 20 functioning borstal schools in India, with a combined total capacity of 2,108 inmates.
The Criminal Justice Act 1982 officially abolished the borstal system in the UK, introducing youth custody centres instead.
Himachal Pradesh and Kerala are the only states that have the capacity to lodge female inmates in two of their borstal schools.
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You smell out the hedgerows, and every borstal leads you out on to the grass.
At Caversham there is a small proportion of the inmates who should be transferred to a borstal institution.
I have always said that the hanging gardens of borstal knocked spots off the hanging gardens of Babylon, and now I know it.
You may find it in the little street that runs off the market place, going down towards the borstal Institution.
He is not a criminal and earth is not a borstal Institution.
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