Sentence examples for for the penitentiary from inspiring English sources

The Times has a map with pictures and little icons, including one for the penitentiary from which prisoners escaped in the chaos.

It is believed to have been the first synagogue in a United States prison, said Sean Kelley, program manager for the penitentiary.

Legislators also responded to Blackburn's call for a warden system, authorizing the state to employ a warden, deputy warden, clerk, physician, and chaplain for the penitentiary.

Four years ago a nursery was started on Riker's Island, the idea being to make the city eventually selfsufficient in the matter of trees and also to provide healthful outdoor work for th inmates of the penitentiary.

Imagine a scenario in which a young black man, just freed from the penitentiary for the second time, haplessly stumbles into a situation that, thanks to the popularity of "three strikes and you're out" laws, could put him on ice forever.

The club had a small bar, library, large dining and dance floor, billiards table, ping pong table and a two-lane bowling alley, and was the centre of social life on the island for the employees of the penitentiary.

However, according to Alexander Etkind, punitive psychiatry was not simply an inheritance from the Stalin era as the GULAG (the acronym for Chief Administration for Corrective Labor Camps, the penitentiary system in the Stalin years) was an effective instrument of political repression and there was no compelling requirement to develop an alternative and expensive psychiatric substitute.

That happened to Mr. Bursey, and he ended up spending almost two years in the penitentiary for malicious destruction of property -- as he puts it, for spraying "Hell No We Won't Go" on walls.

In 1950, she became a social worker at the Penitentiary for Women in Alderson, W.Va.

He famously commented that he "hardly knew whether [he] was running for the presidency or the penitentiary".

As the campaign ended, Greeley moaned: "I have been assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for the presidency or the penitentiary".