penal

• “I have heard from someone knowledge in penal policy that prison rape is almost exclusively an American phenomenon.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » More on “Weight Classes” for Prison Inmates

• “Immigration Judges may be required to conduct hearings in penal institutions and other remote locations.”

  Mex US Relations and Living in Mexico

• “There's a wide array of things that people think are the very worst — murdering law enforcement officers, murdering in penal institutions, multiple murders, contract murders.”

  Life or Death Decision

• “Well, as I've said, you can challenge that by saying, What about murders in penal institutions, don't we have to have some punishment available for those people?”

  Life or Death Decision

• “The slaveholders who fought to maintain penal slavery in the Constitution understood that the criminal control system would be a lynchpin in the political economy of the post-Reconstruction South.”

  Prison Slavery

• “However, I note that, like many other antagonists of the penal status quo, Mr. Wills fails to come up with a viable alternative to this madness we call penal "rehabilitation.”

  Do We Need Prisons? An Exchange

• “Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.”

  Maxims for Revolutionists

• “I doubted also whether to make a distinction of ages, or to treat young and old alike; whether to allow space for recantation, or to refuse all pardon whatever to one who had been a Christian; whether, finally, to make the name penal, though no crime should be proved, or to reserve the penalty for the combination of both.”

  The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

• “And when this puerile but malignant conspiracy is forgotten, as we trust it soon will be, and its ringleaders are expiating their crime in penal servitude, we are confident that England will be forward to show her sister nation, who refused to be wiled away into disloyalty, or to enter into even a momentary communion with treason, that she has no reason to regret her steadfastness.”

  The Fenian Trials

• “Might not this detainment make a martyr of a man who could otherwise be shown, in a fair and public trial, to be deserving of long-term penal confinement?”

  Barry Crimmins : Political Satirist:

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