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• n  a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
• s  used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
  penitentiary institutions
• s  showing or constituting penance

• As Mexico locks up thousands of cartel hitmen, its penitentiary system already filled with unconvicted prisoners is quickly becoming a powder keg.
• In 1920 he was sent to a Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud.
• I'm cold, I'm hungry, and I want to get back to McNeil Island federal penitentiary in time for spring football practice.

• pen
• penitential

News & Articles

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• ND penitentiary expansion nears completion
  BISMARCK - Robyn Schmalenberger took over as warden of the North Dakota State Penitentiary in May 2010. The entire time she's been at the helm of the maximum security prison, it has been under construction.
  June 17, 2013 - The Fargo Forum
• North Dakota penitentiary expansion nears completion
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Robyn Schmalenberger took over as warden of the North Dakota State Penitentiary in May 2010. The entire time she's been at the helm of the maximum security prison, it has been under construction.
  June 17, 2013 - WDAY 6 Fargo
• Parchman penitentiary visitation canceled
  Visitation at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has been canceled until further notice, corrections officials said. The prison remained on lockdown Friday after the stabbing death of Kelvin Bowen, 35, on Tuesday. Correction officials said Roderick Roshund Lewis attacked and killed Bowen. An investigation is being conducted by the Corrections Investigation Division of the Mississippi ...
  June 16, 2013 - WAPT Jackson