penal reform. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
penal servitude. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. From Wordnik.com. [Maxims for Revolutionists] Reference
Immigration Judges may be required to conduct hearings in penal institutions and other remote locations. From Wordnik.com. [Mex US Relations and Living in Mexico] Reference
These methods of indirect defence I have called penal substitutes. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Sociology] Reference
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The final straw came when they started shipping their convicts over from England to start some kind of penal colony. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
The government of Zambia, one of the poorest countries in the world, argued that the sum being claimed by Donegal was "penal". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Today in 1884, Britain ended its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. heh heh heh she said "penal". From Wordnik.com. [September 4th, 2008] Reference
For one thing the word "penal" has kind of a dirty connotation to it. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
For in the previous sentence Mill says that “the idea of penal sanction. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
"I am sure there is no necessity for me to recall the penal laws to your mind. From Wordnik.com. [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference
Was German literature always to remain no more than a kind of penal apparatus for the teasing of the brain?. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Portraits] Reference
But not one bishop who has been accused of sexually abusing children himself has been subjected to any kind of penal process. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
How could it be more emphatically proclaimed than by making its consequences perpetual and giving it a kind of penal character?. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference
The life I lead at Berlin is a kind of penal servitude, when I think of my independent life abroad.”. From Wordnik.com. [Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire]
If that's a crime, Beltway would be a penal colony. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
He has become a legend in the Colorado penal system. From Wordnik.com. [These Clients Aren't Fools] Reference
What becomes of a penal policy that on its face is a sham?. From Wordnik.com. [Anger And Ambivalence] Reference
They used it to blast the Texas penal and justice systems. From Wordnik.com. [Questions and Answers: The Story of an Escape] Reference
Iran's penal code reserves the harshest punishments for women. From Wordnik.com. [Iran's 7th-Century Justice] Reference
"" This is against the spirit of the penal code, '' he told me. From Wordnik.com. [The Execution Of Justice] Reference
The schools are doing their best to shed their old penal-colony image. From Wordnik.com. [Such, Such Were the Joys] Reference
Amer-I-Can classes are currently taught in 10 California penal institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Going Like Gangbusters] Reference
China is the last major communist state, and its penal system is the last gulag. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Gulag] Reference
Under the city's penal code, the charges aren't serious enough to merit free legal representation. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Aid For The Prosecution] Reference
A continent away, New York City's Rose M. Singer jail stands as a testimony to penal enlightenment. From Wordnik.com. [Women In Jail: Unequal Justice] Reference
Justice Department investigation that found New York's juvenile penal system to be tragically mismanaged. From Wordnik.com. [Children Are Not Too Old to Change] Reference
But magistrate and prison personnel unions and penal-law experts say the bill doesn't go nearly far enough. From Wordnik.com. [Incarceration Nation] Reference
In penal lore, the massive concrete fortress on the shores of the bay ranks among the nation's most notorious. From Wordnik.com. [Next, The Death Penalty Wing] Reference
"He made his whole career as Interior minister on that," says Martine Herzog-Evans, a penal law specialist in Reims. From Wordnik.com. [Incarceration Nation] Reference
The clip is closing in on 9 million views, and it's not because people are interested in the Philippine penal system. From Wordnik.com. [Jacko, When He Was King] Reference
The second claims that there are some wonderful "Asian values" of order and responsibility typified by Singapore's penal code. From Wordnik.com. [Crime & Punishment] Reference
Prisoners throughout California's penal system have asked if they can raise relief funds for firefighters -- and police officers. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's Neighborhood] Reference
And except for the scenes between Weaver and Charles Dance, as the penal colony's sympathetic doctor, the human drama rarely comes to life. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ripley And The Dragon] Reference
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