What's a Reformatory Prison?

A prison, also known as a jail or gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, lock-up or remand center is a facility in which inmates are confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes.

What is a reformatory and what is its purpose?

Reformatory, correctional institution for the treatment, training, and social rehabilitation of young offenders.

What is the difference between prison and reformatory?

As nouns the difference between prison and reformatory

is that prison is a place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes, or otherwise considered undesirable by the government while reformatory is a prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.