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penitentiary [,peni'tenʃәri]

n. 监狱, 收容所, 教养所, 宗教裁判所

a. 用作感化的, 应处监禁的, 教养所的, 收容所的

[法] 教养所, 妓女收容所, 州监狱

penitentiary

[ noun ]

a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

<noun.artifact>

[ adj ]

used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers

<adj.all>

penitentiary institutions

showing or constituting penance

<adj.all>

penitential tears

wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words

Penitentiary \Pen`i*ten"tia*ry\, a. [Cf. F. p['e]nitentiaire.]
1. Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of
penance. ``A penitentiary tax.'' --Abp. Bramhall.

2. Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.

3. Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
``Penitentiary houses.'' --Blackstone.

Penitentiary \Pen`i*ten"tia*ry\, n.; pl. {Penitentiaries}. [Cf.
F. p['e]nitencier. See {Penitent}.]
1. One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
[Obs.] --Bacon.

2. One who does penance. [Obs.] --Hammond.

3. A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
--Shpiley.

4. That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
--Shipley.

5. (R. C. Ch.)
(a) An office of the papal court which examines cases of
conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc.,
and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief
is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary,
appointed by the pope.
(b) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested
with power from the bishop to absolve in cases
reserved to him.

6. A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for
punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they
are generally compelled to labor.

Deportable Cuban detainees are being held in a strict "lockdown" in a penitentiary in Talladega, Ala., so another disturbance is considered unlikely.
You're caught with them, their dirt is going to spill over on you and I'm going to send you to the penitentiary.
The penitentiary was last modified around 1918 and was one of the blacker holes in the federal prison system for decades.
"He could get 10 years in the penitentiary if he is retried, but we are willing to take that risk," Scardino said.
"All the things that they provide (at the penitentiary), we have in Hot Springs County," he said.
They said three prisoners were missing, possibly killed by a fire that swept thorugh a bakery storehouse at the Czarne penitentiary.
The takeover occurred late Monday at the penitentiary in Quezaltepeque, about 15 miles northeast of San Salvador.
Warden Miguel Garcia said by telephone that two other prisoners were badly wounded before calm was restored at Santa Ana penitentiary.
"This has always been an oil country that doesn't think like an oil country," says Jorge Diaz Serrano, who went from the Pemex chief executive's suite during the oil boom of the 1970s to a penitentiary cell during the debt bust of the 1980s.
He was paroled from a halfway house in January 1986 after serving nearly two years of a three-year sentence at the federal penitentiary at Allenwood, Pa.
An Arkansas sheriff, driven to frustration, chained his surplus jail inmates to a state penitentiary fence.
A hospital spokeswoman referred all calls to the penitentiary.
Inmates who may have been excluded from a general amnesty rioted at a prison in Slovakia and took over some parts of the penitentiary, the Communist Party newspaper reported Saturday.
Riot police in Brazil crushed a two-day rebellion in a Sao Paulo penitentiary.
He is serving a 69-year sentence for racketeering at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill.
Daniele was taken to the medical facility at the federal penitentiary in Springfield, Mo., where he will undergo a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said.
Delgado today negotiated with the inmates by telephone from outside the Venustiano Carranza penitentiary in the city of Tepic, 500 miles northwest of Mexico City.
Inmates in Atlanta and their supporters in Miami then demanded Roman negotiate at the penitentiary as well.
Federal authorities reported substantial progress in talks with Cuban detainees holding 89 hostages at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
Police captured five inmates outside the penitentiary, Franco Villa said.
The penitentiary, which opened in 1811, ordinarily holds 700 to 800 men, but Monday's inmate count was 1,270. Eighteen of its inmates are on death row.
Public Defender Gary Hogg, who represented Boswell, said the judge's only choices were to send Boswell to the Youth Development Center in Kearney, from which the boy escaped at least twice, or the state penitentiary.
Later, Mercer's body was taken from the penitentiary in a hearse.
Men who answered ads in homosexual magazines were the primary victims of a $330,000 postal money order scam run by seven current and former Mississippi state penitentiary inmates, officials said.
The panel heard the case at the Danbury, Conn., federal penitentiary where she's serving a five-year sentence as an accessory after the fact, said lawyer Hamilton P. Fox.
In November, reporters for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution asked the Bureau of Prisons for names of prisoners inside the federal penitentiary in Atlanta when 1,100 Cuban prisoners held that prison for 11 days.
Evans said Wednesday in a telephone interview from the penitentiary that he was keeping busy "doing legal work," writing his will and conferring by telephone with his attorneys.
In a Salvation Army tent outside the Atlanta penitentiary, Sherry Alvarez Terry fixes her binoculars on the neo-classical structure where her husband, Edel, is a prisoner.
Edwards was the fourth person executed at the state penitentiary at Parchman and the 113th in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Army troops dispatched to the penitentiary "are standing by and have not intervened to subdue the rioters," the National Police officer said.

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