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Republic of Ireland. In India, such a
detention centre is
known as a
borstal school.
Borstals were run by HM
Prison Service and were
intended to
reform young...
- Look up
borstal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
borstal or
borstal school is a type of
juvenile detention centre in
India and
formerly in the United...
- The
Borstal (Czech: Pasťák) is a
Czech drama film
about a
teacher newly ****igned to
youth detention center. It was made by
director Hynek Bočan in 1968...
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Borstal is a
location in the
Medway unitary authority of Kent in
South East England.
Originally a
village near Rochester, it has
become absorbed by the...
- the hard rock band Fastway. They are
signed to
their own
record label,
Borstal Beat Records.
Prior to
forming Flogging Molly, Dublin-born Dave King was...
- Fort
Borstal was
built as an
afterthought from the 1859
Royal Commission on the
Defence of the
United Kingdom, by
convict labour.
Construction started...
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Borstal Boy is a 1958
autobiographical book by
Brendan Behan. The
story depicts a young,
fervently idealistic Behan, who
loses his naïveté over the three...
- a "jail dot." A
Borstal dot, a dot
under an eye, also
meant doing time, but this
tattoo has
become a lot less
common since Borstals were abolished. Another...
- St. Patrick's
Borstal Institution, Clonmel, was
established in
Ireland in 1906 as a
place of
detention for
young male
offenders aged
between 16 and 21...
- and co-written by Kim Chapiron. It is a
Canadian remake of the
British borstal film S****. This is Chapiron's only film to go direct-to-video. Butch, Davis...
