Borstal Definition

bôrstəl
noun
A former type of British correctional institution to which convicted young offenders (16 to 21 years old) were sent for reeducation and training.
Webster's New World

(historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.

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Noun

Singular:
borstal
Plural:
borstals

Origin of Borstal

  • Named after Borstal Prison in Kent, England.

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Borstal Sentence Examples

  • Borstal system seems to encourage the ' Daddy ' system as a way of maintaining order whilst Archer's style merely fuels resentment.

  • Borstal trainees were released at the outbreak of war and premises converted to other uses.

  • It was named after the former convict prison at Borstal, Kent, where the system was pioneered.

  • The Borstal scheme of a juvenile-adult reformatory has been to some extent planned on the institutions of Elmira reformatory in the state of New York and of Concord in Massachusetts (see Juvenile Offenders).

  • It is now passed at a public works prison; either at Aylesbury (females), Borstal, Dartmoor, Parkhurst or Portland.

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