| Magdalen orders were a feature of almost all communities which ran large penitentiaries. |
| Indeed, this promise gave the prisons or penitentiaries, as they were now often called, enormous legitimacy, making them the pride, not the shame, of the new republic. |
| When she walked through the mines and penitentiaries the prisoners there often appeared surprised at her hopelessness. |
| A handful of North American penitentiaries now house these geriatric prisoners, including the Angola State maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. |
| Voting patterns suggest that market towns, such as ports and cities located on rivers, favored penitentiaries. |
| Women are the fastest-growing segment of the population in federal penitentiaries and state prisons. |
