| 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. |
| According to the report, 2.1 million Americans spent 2002 in local jails, state and federal penitentiaries and juvenile detention facilities. |
| He added that when he was the director general he used to make impromptu visits to the penitentiaries at night. |
| A handful of North American penitentiaries now house these geriatric prisoners, including the Angola State maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. |
| Women are the fastest-growing segment of the population in federal penitentiaries and state prisons. |
| White, who came from a good home, managed to spend a fair amount of his life at a host of federal and state penitentiaries. |
