He was sent to borstal.

他被送往少年感化院。

As a boy he did three years in Borstal ， came out, married at eighteen on the strength of a successful burglary, and shortly afterwards enlisted in the artillery.

年少時，他在少年犯感化院待了3年，出來后憑借一次成功的盜竊在18歲時娶了妻子，后來當了炮兵。

He was sent to borstal for stealing.

他因偷竊被送進少年犯感化院.

But Mr Sillitoe spoke too, in the voice of Smith in "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" ( 1959), for the petty-criminal underclass, Borstal boys:

而在1959年創作的小說《一名長跑運動員的孤獨》中，作家借主人公史密斯之口也為那些輕微犯罪的草根階層——教養院男孩發言：