penitentiary
教养所,监狱,教养院,教养
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plural pen·i·ten·tia·ries.
- : a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
- : Roman Catholic Church. a tribunal in the Curia Romana, presided over by a cardinal , having jurisdiction over certain matters, as penance, confession, dispensation, absolution, and impediments, and dealing with questions of conscience reserved for the Holy See.
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- : punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary.
- : of, relating to, or intended for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment.
- : penitential.
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I didn’t want him to talk himself into the penitentiary for life.
One of the first documented outbreaks of the 1918 influenza pandemic happened in San Quentin State Prison, the infamous and overpopulated penitentiary where Johnny Cash sang.
The Mexican Mafia run their empire from the penitentiary to the streets of LA.
I recently visited Graterford, a maximum-security state penitentiary in Pennsylvania, 30 miles from Philadelphia.
He is now serving a minimum of a two-year sentence in a federal penitentiary.
He served two months at the Mississippi state penitentiary before his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court.
But under house arrest after 18 months in a federal penitentiary.
There is nothing like it among us at the present day except within the melancholy precincts of the penitentiary.
He didn't think the penitentiary the place for them, and would not have the convicts contaminated by them.
In the three months of penitentiary life I have learned many things.
We are requiring heavy bail and asking for imprisonment in the penitentiary in case of conviction.
In a remote state of the West there is a respectable and successful farmer, who was once sentenced to the penitentiary for life.