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borstal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Borstal \Borstal\ n. a British reform school for youths between 16 and 22.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983. 2 (context British Ireland English) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
Wikipedia
A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. In India, it is known as a borstal school.
Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and intended to reform seriously delinquent young people. The word is sometimes used loosely to apply to other kinds of youth institution or reformatory, such as Approved Schools and Detention Centres. The court sentence was officially called "borstal training". Borstals were originally for offenders under 21, but in the 1930s the age was increased to under 23. The Criminal Justice Act 1982 abolished the borstal system in the UK, introducing youth custody centres instead.
In India, borstal schools are used for the imprisonment of minors. As of 31 December 2014, there were 20 functioning borstal schools in India, with a combined total capacity for 2,108 inmates.
A borstal or borstal school is a type of juvenile detention centre in India and formerly in the United Kingdom.
Borstal may also refer to:
- Borstal, Rochester, the village in Kent, England in which the prison was situated
- Borstal Prison, after which the system was named
- Borstal Boy, a play by Brendan Behan
- Borstal Breakout, a single by Sham 69
- Boarstall, a village in Buckinghamshire, England
Usage examples of "borstal".
I want her out of this whole risk-area of clinks and clinics and soup-queues, of hostels and borstals and homes full of mad women.
I had visions of ending up in Borstal or prison or being the new young meat in an overcrowded remand wing.
The promotion of cottage industries, the prevention of juvenile street trading, the extension of the Borstal prison system, the furtherance of vague talkative religious movements the fostering of inter-racial ENTENTES, all found in him a tireless exponent, a fluent and entertaining, though perhaps not very convincing, advocate.
Georgie only reminded her how easy it would be for her daughter to end up being put in a borstal institution, like this one at Aylesbury.
Lenny, who had been to Borstal and was proud of it, and Cecil, a far-gone alcoholic of about thirty-five.
Sharp spell of Borstal training to teach you the mysteries of housebreaking, and then a steady life in the Nick.
Sheldrake, had got a Fourth in History and was only chosen for his present post because he was a member of the Freemasons, or that the yapping little cocker spaniel of a man who tried to teach us football had been dismissed from a job at Borstal for suspected buggery and even and this was a story which lasted with considerable embellishments throughout the whole of one long, wet summer term that the angry string bean of a man who taught us French had been a close friend of Burgess and Maclean and lived in daily terror of being arrested as an old Cambridge leftie and still-active Soviet spy.
Dunnet is a senior officer of the Special Branch of New Scotland Yard and a member of Interpol and he has accumulated enough evidence against you, for aiding and abetting criminals, to ensure that you'll spend the next few years in a remand home and Borstal.
Sent to borstal in 1948 for breaking and entering, theft and causing actual bodily harm.
Again, no youthful prisoner under twenty-one years of age, no matter how bad his record, is allowed the benefit of Borstal training unless he, too, be sound in mind and body.
The promotion of cottage industries, the prevention of juvenile street trading, the extension of the Borstal prison system, the furtherance of vague talkative religious movements the fostering of inter-racial ententes, all found in him a tireless exponent, a fluent and entertaining, though perhaps not very convincing, advocate.