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  • noun Plural form of penitentiary.

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Examples

  • The Altrurians listened in silence, and I hoped they could not realize the facts, though the story was every word true; but what seemed to make them the most indignant was the treatment of the families of the prisoners in what we call our penitentiaries and reformatories.

    Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878

  • Some times it is easier to communicate to men who are in penitentiaries, to men who are prisoners of our society and of our social conventions and of our economy; because they were men who were and had been deeply wounded, wounded because when they were young they had been born to squalor and lived in very difficult situations.

    A World in Violence: Eruption to Hope? 1971

  • Right now, the practice sees offenders get credit for so-called "dead time" spent in detention centres prior to trial and sentencing, where there is no access to drug or alcohol treatment, rehabilitation or other therapeutic programs provided in long-term penitentiaries or provincial prisons.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2009

  • I would prefer to call the penitentiaries “the Bush.”

    Think Progress » Methodist ministers protest Bush library. 2007

  • Prison may be applied to the maximum-security institutions often known as penitentiaries and to the medium-security facilities often called correctional institutions or reformatories.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • Prison may be applied to the maximum-security institutions often known as penitentiaries and to the medium-security facilities often called correctional institutions or reformatories.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • Minorites have also been appointed grand penitentiaries, that is, directors of the papal penitentiaries, and have served and still servi in Rome as Apostolic penitentiareis and as confessors to the pope himself or in the principal basilicas of the city.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • "Originally called penitentiaries because they promised to induce holy penitence among their wards, these novel disciplinary institutions took shape in the United States soon after the birth of the republic," he writes.

    Fore, right! MARY FOSTER 2010

  • Prisons were called penitentiaries because the mission of a prison was to help wayward inmates serving penance.

    unknown title 2009

  • Prisons were called penitentiaries because the mission of a prison was to help wayward inmates serving penance.

    unknown title 2009

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