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What is a borstal?

What is a borstal? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
  2. (Britain, Ireland) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
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From approved school he graduated through detention centre to borstal, finally winding up in prison.
This film almost certainly paints a truer picture of day-to-day borstal life than the earlier film's rosily optimistic outlook.
When someone informed on him he was charged with handling stolen goods and sentenced to one year in borstal.
He was involved in crime from an early age, being sent to approved schools and borstal before ending up prison.
You smell out the hedgerows, and every borstal leads you out on to the grass.
You may find it in the little street that runs off the market place, going down towards the borstal Institution.

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