borstal training

noun

borstal training

noun

1

Law UK, Historical The 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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