Word: borstal
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Somehow one does not think that civilized old England has a prison system seriously in need of the services of Brubaker, the reform-minded prison warden recently portrayed by Robert Redford. But aside from the fact that the Borstal, a juvenile facility, in Scum is neat and clean, unlike the pigsty prison farm in Brubaker, the two institutions are identical...
...rules over his section) provides the plot with such movement as it has. There is an implication that Carlin's rule may be slightly more humane than that of the Daddy he has literally beaten out of the job, but so severe are the limits both of the Borstal and of his own spirit that his emergence is not a hopeful sign...