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  • International Journal of Criminology and Penology 1: 69-97.

    Hanging 2009

  • The measure approved by the Senate Corrections and Penology Subcommittee would set up a volunteer organ and tissue donor program in the state Corrections Department to teach inmates about the procedures and the need for donors.

    Cutting Prison Time for Inmates Who Donate Organs | Impact Lab 2007

  • The prison opened in 1838, its design and program of solitary confinement modeled on that of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia (see "A Study in 'Progressive' Penology," ARCHAEOLOGY, May/June 1992).

    Providence Prison 1997

  • Professor in Criminology and Penology at Unisa, Charl Cilliers, is one of the firm believers that the system can succeed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Penology took its place with lycanthropy and other forgotten witchcrafts.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • The thing that is most conspicuous in Penology is the new attitude of courts of law, of judges and even of juries.

    The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

  • Penology, or the laws and their administration which deal with crime and criminals and with both the victims of and the panderers to vice.

    The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

  • There have been developed, in order to deal with this problem scientifically, a number of subsidiary sciences, especially Criminology and Penology, which are sciences dealing with the causes, nature, and treatment of crime.

    Sociology and Modern Social Problems 1909

  • Philippines-Massacre suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr. was transferred Thursday from a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) cell to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology court on Monday dismissed the rebellion case against members of the Ampatuan clan after finding no probable cause against them.

    WN.com - Articles related to Philippines to drop murder charges against two massacre suspects 2010

  • Philippines-Massacre suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr. was transferred Thursday from a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) cell to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology murder charges against two members of a warlord clan accused in the massacre of 57

    WN.com - Articles related to Philippines to drop murder charges against two massacre suspects 2010

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