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How to use penitentiary in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word penitentiary? Here are some examples.

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Instead, they face charges of criminal mischief, punishable by up to two years in the penitentiary.
Rehabilitation for the youthful is unlikely if imprisonment is served in a penitentiary rather than a reformatory.
Eager suitors are invited to write Rowland care of her maximum security penitentiary.
In a beauty pageant in a women's penitentiary, a pretty 22-year-old won a silver diadem and the title of Miss Captivity.
Hank Grotowski is a corrections officer heading the death row detail of a southern U.S. penitentiary.
I sentence you on count two to two years and seven months' imprisonment in the penitentiary.
He was one of the 11 other convicts at the penitentiary who were so treated.
That busy line must be a cruel and tantalising reminder of lost freedom for the inmates of the upstate New York penitentiary.
In Kingston, we check out the museum at the penitentiary, where convicts have been housed for well over 100 years.
Even as she gazed endlessly at her new domicile, Virginia did not feel at home, but rather as if she was being sent into a penitentiary.
Recent authority for illicit conduct of this nature dictates penitentiary time.
Although the almshouse did not eliminate poverty any more than the penitentiary did crime, 1820s Baltimore attested to the optimism of a dynamic age.
Transportation to Australia or incarceration in one of the new penitentiary prisons became the standard punishment for serious, non-homicidal offenders.
The military police is sometimes responsible for the external security of penitentiary centres.
The reports of this NGO are taken into consideration in studies for the improvement of penitentiary establishments.
She pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.
In M o n t e n e g r o: further training of penitentiary staff and improvement of facilities.
We recognize that the penitentiary system is one of the key components of the criminal justice system.
Reforms are also urgently needed in the justice and penitentiary sector, especially to improve prison conditions, which generally are deplorable.
It is a maximum security facility actually within the grounds of Millhaven maximum security federal penitentiary.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The man broke out of the Arizona penitentiary, and Fraser came north to rearrest him.
Some of the charivari party had to fly, or they might have ended their days in the penitentiary.
If he should be put into the penitentiary, she may transact business as if she were a feme sole.
Late in the fall the Colorado courts sent griller and his crew to the penitentiary for long terms.
Time and again he was arrested, brutally treated by the police, and sentenced to serve time in the penitentiary.
The jury found a verdict against him, and the Court sentenced him to hard labor, in the penitentiary, for the term of four years.
But instead he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet.
Requiring an assistant at his lathery trade he applied to the penitentiary on Ile de Nou.
If Hallard could open the penitentiary, why not the grave in which a corpus delicti had been hastily hidden?
It would have been something of a windup to send the boy to the penitentiary.
He is to be beaten, understand, if we have to send him to the penitentiary on an old issue to do it.
In Tennessee, I was told, it is a penitentiary offense to set out a bear trap.
To steal would be to go to the penitentiary or the state prison.
So far, I have escaped the penitentiary and the home for feebleminded.
The last I heard of him, he was the tenant of a western penitentiary.
I tell you if Charlie goes to the penitentiary I go with him.
He was Minister of the province of the Abruzzi and papal penitentiary.
Seventy-five of them were sent to the government penitentiary at Arequipa.
Why don't they take this 'gink' person and put him in the penitentiary?
We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful if there are no penitentiary birds among them.
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