A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes.
Showing or constituting penance.
1 The effect is somewhere between Sixties modern, Louis Quinze and state penitentiary .
2 The great majority of the criminals in the penitentiary are young men.
3 The Atlanta penitentiary claims to be the most humane in the world.
4 A similar fraud was attempted at Columbus in sight of the penitentiary .
5 The Missouri penitentiary is located in the southern suburbs of Jefferson City.
6 This convict is now serving out his eighth term in the penitentiary .
7 My cousin's cache is in the state penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington.
8 While in the penitentiary he is cared for physically, mentally and spiritually.
9 Them two fellers' daddy died in the penitentiary last spring. The Hon.
10 I feel like that every time I drive past the women's penitentiary .
11 And I suppose your plan is to send me to the penitentiary .
12 If Delacollonge is the head of the penitentiary , Ambroise is its arm.
13 He has served, it is said, a term in a Pennsylvania penitentiary .
14 Yes, that's it; I knew it was something connected with a penitentiary .
15 I am now ready for my work-aninvestigation of the Missouri penitentiary .
16 Such a thing had never been known in the penitentiary 's history before.
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