NichiDict

少年院

しょうねんいん
[shounenin]

Meanings

1.Noun

reformatory; juvenile training school; reform school; youth detention center (centre)

Examples

彼は少年院を出て、新しい生活を始めた。

He left the juvenile training school and started a new life.

ソーシャルワーカーが少年院の少年を訪問した。

A social worker visited a juvenile at the reformatory.

少年院での経験が彼を変えた。

His experience in the juvenile training school changed him.