The phrase "a penitentiary for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a facility designed for the confinement of individuals who have been convicted of crimes, often in a legal or formal context.
Example: "The state government is planning to build a new penitentiary for the rehabilitation of offenders."
Alternatives: "a prison for" or "a correctional facility for".
In 1977, when he was fifteen, Loch was thrown into a penitentiary for protesting a drop in his work team's rations.
The motion in arrest of judgment was overruled, and the defendants were sentenced to imprisonment in a penitentiary for the term of five years.
Perhaps it had been part of Henry VIII's Bridewell palace that Edward VI made better known when he turned it into a penitentiary for vagabonds and whores.
As Acting Corrections Commissioner, he will oversee the county's prison complex on the Grasslands Reservation, which includes a jail for men accused of crimes or awaiting sentence, a penitentiary for men sentenced to prison for less than a year and a unit for both pre-conviction and post-conviction women.
The complex includes a county jail for men who are being detained before trial, awaiting sentencing or awaiting transfer; a penitentiary for men who have been sentenced to a term of a year or less; and a unit for women in both categories.
It goes on to allege that Mr. Riches was incarcerated in a penitentiary for the last several years, during which time Mr. Riches claims he was in frequent written contact with Ms. Tiffany Robinson, the daughter of the putative winners.
The prisoners at the Banda Aceh City Class II-A Penitentiary were restless for weeks before their escape.
An ex-bruiser of the old school, he had served five years in a southern penitentiary for a crime unspeakable.
Reestablished as a penitentiary (1825 55) for the reception of the most desperate criminals from the British convict settlements in Australia, Norfolk Island became notorious as a place of merciless discipline and punishment, holding an average of 1,500 to 2,000 convicts.
Tyson has served time in an Indiana penitentiary for a rape conviction.
(Subsequent stints of incarceration followed, beginning in 2008. This May, he was released after serving nearly three years in a federal penitentiary for illegal possession of a firearm; he is now back at home in Atlanta, and he and Will are working together).
