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an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)
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an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)
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Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
- An English novelist; born at Blackheath, 1830; died Brixton, March 13, 1862. She wrote noted "Charles Auchester"(1853), mystical art novel; "Counterparts, or the Cross of Love"(1854); "My First Season"(1855); "The Double Coronet"(1856); "Rumor", a musical and artistic novel(1858).