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Reformatory

Re-fōrm'a-to-ry, a.

adjective

(50), a. Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

Re-fōrm'a-to-ry, n.

noun

n. An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.

Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.