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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDid You Enjoy Reform School?

When I was there, it was The Boys Industrial School.
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Did You Enjoy Reform School? (Original Post)
ohiosmith
Aug 2012
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HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)1. WHOA! TMI! TMI! TMI!
"What were you arrested for?"
And I said, "littering." And they ALL MOVED AWAY from me on the bench there. Until I said, "and creating a nuisance." Then they all came back and we was talking about father rapin', mother stabin', and all kind of groovy stuff. We was smokin' cigarettes and all KINDS of things until the sergeant walked in. Had a stack of papers in his hand..."
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)2. You can get anything you want........
NightWatcher
(39,376 posts)3. not as much as I enjoyed Reform School Girls

ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)4. We weren't coed!
frogmarch
(12,251 posts)5. The reform school in
Torrington, Wyoming was once an orphanage named Saint Joseph's Orphanage. Though now a reformatory, it is still called Saint Joseph's Orphanage, and the large statue on the beautiful front lawn depicting Saint Joseph and two children is still there.

ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)6. There were beautiful grounds around BIS as well. That's because we (inmates) maintained them.