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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "penitentiary" in a sentence

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    penitentiary


    1. the gallows at Washington’s Old Penitentiary and were executed


    2. His penitentiary was one of the “country club” lower security variety, where they put white collar criminals


    3. Muecke made his five- and two-year sentences run consecutively, not concurrently, so that Bob had to begin serving his time at a federal maximum security penitentiary


    4. The trial lasted five days and resulted in Virgil Troaz being sent to the penitentiary at Walla Walla


    5. penitentiary,” The Mythos booted up and veered out of the


    6. the penitentiary, gas mask compressed against his face, he took


    7. correspondences: he was serving time in the Florida State Penitentiary


    8. In a Super Max penitentiary you won’t be gang-raped because you’ll be living in total isolation---existing, I should have said


    9. He was put on the prison bus and watched as the penitentiary came into view


    10. He served 2 years in the State Penitentiary for assault and battery of a young black activist called Leroy Hutchings who later disappeared off the face of the earth

    11. freedom, the time spent in the penitentiary still


    12. Down in the shadow of the penitentiary


    13. was worse than Leavenworth Penitentiary


    14. penitentiary! You two jerks will be marked as rapists


    15. penitentiary and then serve 5 years supervised release


    16. The lieutenant in charge of the group hesitated for a moment, looking at his second in command, a crusty sergeant that would have fit well inside a penitentiary if he had not been in the army


    17. It may be better to freeze to death out here on the great prairie than to rot away in a federal penitentiary, that is, if they don’t torture me to death first


    18. “This just in—workers at the largest penitentiary on Yulguren have reported that all the prisoners on death row are now confirmed dead


    19. will end up in the state penitentiary, cleaning toilets for the next


    20. and did 10 months behind the wall at Nebraska State Penitentiary

    21. She was releasing herself from her own mental penitentiary


    22. "Of the 4,787 prisoners in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Illinois,


    23. Her and along with her brother Jeremiah who was now back in possession of his old town bar located back in Cherry Creek, The Lonely River Pass (Which really wasn’t that far off from the jail, or The Nevada State Penitentiary for women located behind a small mountain range just north of White Horse


    24. “Yes, and because of that, the Henderson’s are now either in jail or the state penitentiary


    25. We had to pass back by the school on our way to the penitentiary


    26. He was to be picked up at one-thirty and transported to Helena's general penitentiary


    27. Preferring more direct social service, she moved on to the federal penitentiary in Alderson, West Virginia, to counsel incarcerated women


    28. I’D THOUGHT I’D have months before I got permission to see Ben, but it seems the Kinnakee Kansas State Penitentiary is quick with the visitor passes


    29. penitentiary in Atwater


    30. Covering 7,300 ha (18,000 acres), the Louisiana State Penitentiary, which is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, is a working prison farm in Louisiana, USA

    31. Longest period in solitary confinement: By 17 April 2013, Herman Wallace (left) and Albert Woodfox (both USA) had spent 41 years in solitary confinement, mainly in the State Penitentiary of Louisiana – known as the Angola Jail – in the USA


    32. A whole penitentiary system can be evolved from that word


    33. "Ladies and gentlemen, witness the most astounding act in carnival history! Here you see a penitentiary electric chair exactly like those used in our biggest prisons


    34. “You mean to say that the penitentiary system should be improved


    35. “The shortcomings of the penitentiary system in nowise invalidate the law itself,” Rogozhinsky continued again, without heeding his brother-in-law


    36. "But the deficiencies of the penitentiary system do not invalidate the judicial system," Ignatius Nikiforovitch again continued, without listening to his brother-in-law


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    Synonyms for "penitentiary"

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    "penitentiary" definitions

    a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes


    used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers


    showing or constituting penance