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Meanings of penitentiaries in English

Russian
кичман
Portuguese
aljube
Spanish
carcelazo
Catalan
centre penitenciari
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Place in which people legally are physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms.

кичман
Usage of penitentiaries in English
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Immigration advocates immediately decried the news of sending detainees to federal penitentiaries.
Reuters
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This cane was one of those that are commonly made at penitentiaries.
The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
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The inmates of today's penitentiaries come from all classes of the population.
My Life and My Efforts
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What is it causing the breaking into jails, prisons, asylums, penitentiaries, alms-houses?
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
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Every sin in the Decalogue flourishes in that feeder of penitentiaries and prisons.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
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Ignorance arms men against each other; provides gaols and penitentiaries; police and constabulary.
Thrift
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Let me position private penitentiaries as walled Montessoris for late-blooming unfortunates.
Up in the air
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The cells of the Kansas and other penitentiaries are higher and better ventilated.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
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Separate boards govern the penitentiaries, the reformatories, and the educational institutions.
Community Civics and Rural Life
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Maybe when we finished with this we'd be in separate penitentiaries.
Nothing in her way
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There were colleges and public squares, penitentiaries, banks, taverns, whisky-shops, and fine walks.
The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Son...
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Your Magdalen Asylums are penitentiaries, not homes; I won't go to any of them.
Work: A Story of Experience
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However, all Utopias, like all monasteries and penitentiaries, are made up of picked people.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
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He has, nevertheless, graced with his presence no few penitentiaries.
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
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The male convicts are subsequently removed to the convict barracks; the females to the penitentiaries.
A Source Book of Australian History
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In our penitentiaries, conditions are not less moral and not less humane than in freedom.
My Life and My Efforts