borstal training

noun

The sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.

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nounborstal training (uncountable)
  1. UKhistoricaluncountablelawThe sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.

    The court could sentence them to 'Borstal training', which meant that they were detained in a Borstal institution for an indeterminate period of between six months and two years.

    1989, Richard Meredith Jackson, J. R. Spencer, Jackson's Machinery of Justice, page 277
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