penitentiary in English

noun
1
a prison for people convicted of serious crimes.
Only about 20 of the more than 1,000 prisoners at the federal penitentiary have been convicted of crimes; many have spent years awaiting trial.
2
(in the Roman Catholic Church) a priest charged with certain aspects of the administration of the sacrament of penance.
adjective
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "penitentiary" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "penitentiary", or refer to the context using the word "penitentiary" in the English Dictionary.

1. Blackgate Penitentiary.

2. United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island

3. I'll contact Beaumont penitentiary.

4. He helped me get out the penitentiary.

5. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

6. He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary.

7. Welcome to Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

8. WE HAVE AN ESCAPE FROM BENDWATER PENITENTIARY.

9. I done been in the penitentiary.

10. I learned that in the penitentiary.

11. Except when I was in the penitentiary.

12. Fox River Penitentiary is an old prison.

13. Lee is serving his sentence down at the penitentiary.

14. • Such places are the Antechamber to the penitentiary

15. Expert in the penitentiary system, are you, boy?

16. Such places are the antechamber to the penitentiary.

17. Are we running a penitentiary, or are we running a hotel?

18. He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.

19. The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater.

20. If Kili is a penitentiary, Bikini is the penthouse suite.

21. In 1950, Trumbo served eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.

22. United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island Opened: january,01,1934 Closed: march,21.1963

23. The exact penitentiary where they are been held is under disclosed.

24. 19 synonyms for Calaboose: brig, house of correction, jail, keep, penitentiary, prison, lockup, pen

25. Despite the violence, the prisoner escaped injury and was sent to the state penitentiary.

26. She called the penitentiary and asked to teach creative writing to inmates.

27. He was sentenced to serve in the federal prison camp adjacent to the Atlanta penitentiary.

28. The judge sentenced me to five years in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.

29. Tom Martell sits in the federal penitentiary at Las Vegas, a prisoner of conscience.

30. The exact penitentiary ( or penalty ? ) where they are been held is under disclosed.

31. When I arrived back from the penitentiary, Gloria was in my room asleep.

32. Upon admission to a penitentiary institution, all detained persons are examined and have medical records card opened.

33. Before that he spent seven years in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery.

34. In 19 aged he was sent to the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery.

35. Synonyms for Calaboose include prison, gaol, jail, jailhouse, penitentiary, coop, slammer, can, clink and cooler

36. Buildings include the "Model Prison", the Guard Tower, the Church, and the remnants of the main penitentiary.

37. When the Hirshhorn opened, Ada Louise Huxstable, the New York Times critic, had some choice words: "Neo-penitentiary modern."

38. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is a prison located on Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco

39. That one got him convicted of stock fraud and sent to Leavenworth penitentiary for seven years.

40. The United States Penitentiary, Atwater (USP Atwater) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in California

41. Ing to Burglarise the residence of Daniel McVny, was sentenced to three years In the state penitentiary

42. Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay was the site of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary between 1934 and 1963

43. He has been out of the penitentiary for one week and the suit is his prison issue. Sentencedict.com

44. 15 advisory sessions for national and regional governmental actors on the strengthening of the justice and penitentiary systems

45. And he gon na be laying over there across the street or back down there in the penitentiary.

46. Officials said the devices appear similar to two additional bombs that arrived Thursday at a federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan.

47. On Christmas Eve, Batman intervenes in a jailbreak at Blackgate Penitentiary led by Black Mask, who executes Police Commissioner Loeb and escapes.

48. 🔊 Because he was confined in a state penitentiary, the inmate was not allowed Connubial visits with his wife

49. He escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967 by hiding in a truck transporting bread from the prison bakery.

50. The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was a maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island, located just over a mile off the coast of San Francisco, Calif