penitentiary institutions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Please explain how a federal maximum security penitentiary is like a hotel in any way. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rove Backs Off His Criticism Of Counterterrorism Center, Perhaps Remembering Chief Is A Bush Holdover] Reference
In 1843 it was called a penitentiary instead of a prison. From Wordnik.com. [Westminster The Fascination of London] Reference
The penitentiary is a place for punishment and reformation. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics in Service] Reference
"Being in the penitentiary is a horrible, horrible experience," McGee said. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts: News] Reference
They go from, let say, a United States penitentiary, which is a high to medium custody, yes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2009] Reference
And if guilty of such perjury, the penitentiary should be their canonical residence for life!. From Wordnik.com. [Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors] Reference
Next to the Board of Trade, for him, the penitentiary is the most important of all public buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous selection from | Letter Never Sent] Reference
The major penitentiary, which is an American archbishop, James Stafford, who deals with confessional matters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005] Reference
There was a law in New York against the violation of the seventh commandment, and the penitentiary was the punishment. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
They would not be hanged; but vague, looming sketches of something called the penitentiary began to flicker before them. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Constantinople one was selected called a penitentiary, who took cognisance of crimes, to which public penance was annexed by the canons. From Wordnik.com. [The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome] Reference
I've often wondered about the word "penitentiary" and how it must be connected to penitence and repentance. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Time] Reference
A man lately released has this to say: "The administration of the penitentiary is a sham and pretense. From Wordnik.com. [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference
"A sentence of thirty years in the penitentiary is a big price for a young man to pay for being a fool, Miss Andrés. From Wordnik.com. [The Eyes of the World] Reference
He heard one word from Alec that sounded like "penitentiary," then he and Jill were in the bathroom with the door bolted behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Book 2, Chapter 4. The Supercilious Sacrifice.] Reference
"penitentiary," then he and Jill were in the bathroom with the door bolted behind them. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
Casey had once been sentenced to the State penitentiary at Sing. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Murad is also behind bars in an undisclosed federal penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [A North Carolina Qaeda Cell?] Reference
There's a thing that happens, like when you leave the penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Merle Haggard Reflects On His Outlaw Country Past] Reference
"We have to build roads to success, not roads to the penitentiary.". From Wordnik.com. [Baron Davis Gang Documentary Vies For Emmy] Reference
Should he be assigned to the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. From Wordnik.com. [A Battle For the Basement] Reference
Walpole, home of the state penitentiary, had one more criminal behind bars. From Wordnik.com. [Getting The Wrong Man] Reference
Eight long years of the fifteen he had suffered in a Kentucky penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
News came to us of Calvin Fairbanks's release from the Kentucky penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
He's now in a federal penitentiary in Illinois and couldn't be reached for comment. From Wordnik.com. [Bottom Line: How Crazy Is It?] Reference
He was convicted of a serious crime, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
It's the loneliest feeling in the world about the second night out of the penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Merle Haggard Reflects On His Outlaw Country Past] Reference
John McCarthy, 36, has now taken up residence in the Leavenworth federal penitentiary in Kansas. From Wordnik.com. [These Clients Aren't Fools] Reference
So one day I was in the shower, I was singing, (singing) from the plantation to the penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Marsalis' Sharp Social Critiques Come with Cool Riffs] Reference
In Colombia's penitentiary system, there are three things that matter: location, location and location. From Wordnik.com. [10 Acres, Valley Vu: A Drug Lord's Jail] Reference
He was free to stalk King only because of his successful April 1967 escape from a Missouri penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Pointing Toward A Plot] Reference
So instead of the real words, which I don't know, but he was singing: Come go with me down to the penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Paul McCartney: From Pop Music To Prose] Reference
Authorities planned to demolish the penitentiary after that, but a surge of crime left them desperate for cell space. From Wordnik.com. [Beating The Rap In Brazil] Reference
Pendergast went from college football's most hallowed field to cleaning latrines in an upstate New York penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Bet: A Fixer And His Losses] Reference
Like a short-timer in the penitentiary, I had started keeping a countdown of the number of shows remaining on my daytime contract. From Wordnik.com. [I Was Going To Hell] Reference
Other times I simply tell them the defendants put themselves in the penitentiary and I facilitated their exodus from the community. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Not the Enemy] Reference
Once he gets into an adult correctional facility, for example, a state penitentiary, the chances of rehabilitation drop to close to zero. From Wordnik.com. [Questions &Amp; Answers: When Children Kill] Reference
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