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Meanings of penitentiary system in English
Functions involving the punishment, treatment, and supervision of persons who have been convicted of crimes.
Synonyms
Examples for "corrections"
Examples for "corrections"
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State corrections spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan said Wellons' execution went smoothly, without complications.
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Alex had already seen them and started laying in the course corrections.
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Farewell; accept my corrections in the benevolent spirit of a true friend.
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You have to sit and wait through tough times like market corrections.
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Daily corrections and clarifications Read the most recent corrections and clarifications column.
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In many cases, officials in the correctional system seemed powerless to stop the gang.
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This article reports the programmatic challenges associated with initiating methadone treatment in the Rhode Island correctional system.
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In addition, more than 200,000 active heroin addicts pass through the correctional system annually.
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They have a pernicious effect on our correctional system, the offenders in it, and, most of all, us -our society.
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To try to rein the Brand in, prison officials, in desperation, had begun to place its members throughout the correctional system.
Usage of penitentiary system in English
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I shall now, however, make a few remarks upon the penitentiary system.
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The penitentiary system in Canada is undergoing a strict trial.
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Educated for the Bar, he proceeded to America in 1831 to study the penitentiary system.
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The attorney general's office was investigating the incident, a spokeswoman for the city's penitentiary system said.
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Turkey accounts for the largest number of foreign children in Iraqi custody, people familiar with the penitentiary system said.
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Many of its inmates know that the only way that they will be leaving the penitentiary system is in a box.
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In some 20 interviews, diplomats, the children's mothers and sources familiar with their cases and the penitentiary system described the youngsters' ordeal.
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Giammattei was in 2013 cleared of charges he was involved in illegal deaths of prison gang leaders while he headed the penitentiary system.
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A head found outside Congress on Thursday had a handwritten note with it addressed to the interior minister and the head of the penitentiary system.
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In all, up to 2,000 foreign women and children are in Iraqi custody, said sources with knowledge of the penitentiary system.
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About 1,100 children of Islamic State are caught in the wheels of Iraqi justice, said sources with knowledge of the penitentiary system.
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"You mean to say that the penitentiary system ought to be perfected?"
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In May of 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont came to the U.S. to report on penitentiary systems.
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"You mean to say that the penitentiary system should be improved."
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"The shortcomings of the penitentiary system in nowise invalidate the law itself," Rogozhinsky continued again, without heeding his brother-in-law.
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"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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