December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
He was a career criminal, a prostitute, a thief, a deserter from the French Foreign Legion. He'd spent most of his adult life in and out of prisons and reformatories.
He was everything respectable French society rejected: homosexual, criminal, poor, uneducated.
He was everything respectable French society rejected: homosexual, criminal, poor, uneducated.
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
He was a career criminal, a prostitute, a thief, a deserter from the French Foreign Legion. He'd spent most of his adult life in and out of prisons and reformatories.
He was everything respectable French society rejected: homosexual, criminal, poor, uneducated.
He was everything respectable French society rejected: homosexual, criminal, poor, uneducated.
😱 The Magdalene Sisters - Spanish version 😲🤮🤬
Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma
Marina's mother was held against her will in a convent in 1960s Spain under Franco's regime.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
😱 The Magdalene Sisters - Spanish version 😲🤮🤬
Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma
Marina's mother was held against her will in a convent in 1960s Spain under Franco's regime.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted were incarcerated (...)"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma
Marina's mother was held against her will in a convent in 1960s Spain under Franco's regime.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians. Girls who'd been sexually assaulted were incarcerated (...)"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Also, this passage from Carla C. Hustak's article Saving Civilization from the "'Green-Eyed' Monster". Note that by "the race" she is referring to the human race, though that isn't to say the rest of the language isn't racialized.
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Also, this passage from Carla C. Hustak's article Saving Civilization from the "'Green-Eyed' Monster". Note that by "the race" she is referring to the human race, though that isn't to say the rest of the language isn't racialized.
seems like this has become a topic. Yeah my parents were the religious panic sorts. and I was caught in the first wave as described. that concern did contribute to getting to me getting shipped off to one of those "fix your teen" private reformatories that are big biz in Utah
Yeah, my mother once said the same thing to me
That she worried that some people can lose track of what's real. As if people could mistake their dreams or imagination for reality
That she worried that some people can lose track of what's real. As if people could mistake their dreams or imagination for reality
One point I like to make about the Satanic Panic was that it wasn't even necessarily religious. My mom was not a religious woman, but she legitimately believed her coworker abused his wife because he played D&D too much and lost track of reality. Certain "weird" things just made you evil.
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
seems like this has become a topic. Yeah my parents were the religious panic sorts. and I was caught in the first wave as described. that concern did contribute to getting to me getting shipped off to one of those "fix your teen" private reformatories that are big biz in Utah
Since 2022 Whitechapel Station has signs in Bengali and English to help and acknowledge the local Bangladeshi community. Now that racism is being normalised, Reformers and Tories that should be in reformatories misrepresent and object to it to promote more racism and themselves.
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Since 2022 Whitechapel Station has signs in Bengali and English to help and acknowledge the local Bangladeshi community. Now that racism is being normalised, Reformers and Tories that should be in reformatories misrepresent and object to it to promote more racism and themselves.
If only the killer's calls to the helpline had been heeded. Perhaps if the asylum system was less performatively cruel under pressure from RW dog whistlers? Perhaps some journalists might want to put this to Farage and other reformatories? They share responsibility www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Calls for action over asylum seeker bank murder
Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur has been jailed for the killing but questions remain about the circumstances.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If only the killer's calls to the helpline had been heeded. Perhaps if the asylum system was less performatively cruel under pressure from RW dog whistlers? Perhaps some journalists might want to put this to Farage and other reformatories? They share responsibility www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jean Genet wrote Our Lady of the Flowers on brown paper bags while imprisoned. When the manuscript was discovered & destroyed by guards, he simply wrote it again. Eventually, his work found its way to Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre, who recognized his genius."
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October 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Jean Genet wrote Our Lady of the Flowers on brown paper bags while imprisoned. When the manuscript was discovered & destroyed by guards, he simply wrote it again. Eventually, his work found its way to Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre, who recognized his genius."
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Canadian conservatives are going to go low.
There's no doubt that conservatism will metastasize into a cancer on Canada.
Nothing they've done since they called themselves Reform has changed.
The party of "reformatories".
There's no doubt that conservatism will metastasize into a cancer on Canada.
Nothing they've done since they called themselves Reform has changed.
The party of "reformatories".
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Canadian conservatives are going to go low.
There's no doubt that conservatism will metastasize into a cancer on Canada.
Nothing they've done since they called themselves Reform has changed.
The party of "reformatories".
There's no doubt that conservatism will metastasize into a cancer on Canada.
Nothing they've done since they called themselves Reform has changed.
The party of "reformatories".
🌺 Meet Dr. Maile Arvin, Kanaka Maoli scholar & UH Mānoa Public Administration faculty. Her research uncovers the histories of Hawaiʻi’s reformatories—including one once on our campus. Learn from leaders like her at our Info Session 🗓️ Oct 22 | 4:30PM HST ⬇️ #UHMPUBA
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🌺 Meet Dr. Maile Arvin, Kanaka Maoli scholar & UH Mānoa Public Administration faculty. Her research uncovers the histories of Hawaiʻi’s reformatories—including one once on our campus. Learn from leaders like her at our Info Session 🗓️ Oct 22 | 4:30PM HST ⬇️ #UHMPUBA
Unregulated power results in abuse. The anti-democratic forces want to abuse people without consequences. We see the truth of this in prisons and “reformatories” of every kind. We see it in police culture that demands total impunity for its abusive tactics, refusing effective civilian oversight.
October 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Unregulated power results in abuse. The anti-democratic forces want to abuse people without consequences. We see the truth of this in prisons and “reformatories” of every kind. We see it in police culture that demands total impunity for its abusive tactics, refusing effective civilian oversight.
They tried to shame Genet by calling him a dirty little thief, sending him to jails & reformatories, etc., so he wrote and published A THIEF’S JOURNAL…
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
They tried to shame Genet by calling him a dirty little thief, sending him to jails & reformatories, etc., so he wrote and published A THIEF’S JOURNAL…
In Franco’s Spain, the "Board for the Protection of Women" relied on Catholic nuns to run state sanctioned reformatories.
They enforced strict moral codes, confining women labeled ‘fallen’ or ‘at risk.’
Religious dogma became law, and those laws confined and legally incapacitated Spanish women.
They enforced strict moral codes, confining women labeled ‘fallen’ or ‘at risk.’
Religious dogma became law, and those laws confined and legally incapacitated Spanish women.
October 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
In Franco’s Spain, the "Board for the Protection of Women" relied on Catholic nuns to run state sanctioned reformatories.
They enforced strict moral codes, confining women labeled ‘fallen’ or ‘at risk.’
Religious dogma became law, and those laws confined and legally incapacitated Spanish women.
They enforced strict moral codes, confining women labeled ‘fallen’ or ‘at risk.’
Religious dogma became law, and those laws confined and legally incapacitated Spanish women.
🥚Adoptee born of a mother at a Salvation Army home?
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
🥚Adoptee born of a mother at a Salvation Army home?
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
They ran a wide network of maternity and receiving homes, often with the courts, to house girls labeled “delinquent” or mothers on remand or released from jails or reformatories. YCJA prevents disclosure. #HiddenHistories
The Reformatories - still toxic after all these years
October 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Reformatories - still toxic after all these years
🥚𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐒𝐤𝐲:
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
🥚Note to adoptees: Youth protection laws will prevent you from learning your mother’s circumstances—whether she was criminalized or not. As one account explains, "girls found wandering the city streets are picked up by police and convicted of vagrancy even though they committed no criminal offence.”
October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🥚𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐒𝐤𝐲:
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
We rarely hear about mothers who were pregnant, criminalized, and incarcerated.
Why?
Because girls criminalized as “juvenile delinquents” and locked away in maternity homes, jails, and reformatories have had their stories buried—kept hidden by youth protection laws.
From Nicholas Stargardt's "The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945"
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
From Nicholas Stargardt's "The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945"
No. It allows political parties and leaders to amplify them, from covid conspiracies to global warming denial to Ukraine started it. Yes, looking at you, ReformaTories, and Farage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The struggle to protect children from conspiracy theorist parents
The inquest following the death of Paloma Shemirani raises the question of how to prevent young people from health misinformation
www.bbc.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
No. It allows political parties and leaders to amplify them, from covid conspiracies to global warming denial to Ukraine started it. Yes, looking at you, ReformaTories, and Farage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This year we celebrate our 40th birthday! We're shining a light on 40 influential educators! See the full list👉 https://bit.ly/45EhJ6V Mary Carpenter was a19th-century reformer who founded Ragged Schools & reformatories, bringing education to poor children & young offenders. #education #edusky
September 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This year we celebrate our 40th birthday! We're shining a light on 40 influential educators! See the full list👉 https://bit.ly/45EhJ6V Mary Carpenter was a19th-century reformer who founded Ragged Schools & reformatories, bringing education to poor children & young offenders. #education #edusky
IRISH TIMES, 1981 article, discussing HOPE and Simon Community homes for young people (especially boy SWs) and the best of the best being the Don Bosco and the LA in Dublin, then
"In contrast, a boy reared in reformatories and orphanages has a better tale to tell"
"In contrast, a boy reared in reformatories and orphanages has a better tale to tell"
August 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
IRISH TIMES, 1981 article, discussing HOPE and Simon Community homes for young people (especially boy SWs) and the best of the best being the Don Bosco and the LA in Dublin, then
"In contrast, a boy reared in reformatories and orphanages has a better tale to tell"
"In contrast, a boy reared in reformatories and orphanages has a better tale to tell"
The Ontario Female Refuges Act allowed officials to send women aged 15 to 35—who were unwed and pregnant or deemed to be troublemakers—to reformatories, where they were held against their will and subjected to questionable medical experimentation.
#incorrigible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSGG...
#incorrigible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSGG...
Constance Backhouse: Ontario's Dark Reformatory Past
YouTube video by TVO Today
www.youtube.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Ontario Female Refuges Act allowed officials to send women aged 15 to 35—who were unwed and pregnant or deemed to be troublemakers—to reformatories, where they were held against their will and subjected to questionable medical experimentation.
#incorrigible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSGG...
#incorrigible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSGG...