The phrase 'penal process' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to refer to any process related to the imposition of a punishment or penalty, such as a legal process. For example: "The criminal went through a long and arduous penal process before finally receiving his sentence."
His organization, known to residents as "the system," had its own penal process, including a jail, magistrates, and executioners.
And then you would have two sets of operating procedures in terms of a penal process -- one for the U.S. and the other for outside the U.S".
Although the governing coalition is playing down the decision - with several ministers insisting that the penal process has "only just begun" – stunned reactions are coming through from the political opposition.
The need for forensic scientists is still growing due to the increasing importance of technical evidence in the penal process.
The Dutch government has planned a strong investment in the total penal process, leading to both a quantitative as well as a qualitative expansion in the forensic science field.
The Ministry of Justice was in charge of judicial and penal processes, but had no supervisory role over the Censorate or the Grand Court of Revision.
Through these, students gain an understanding of criminological theories of offending and the extent of crime, enabling them to examine the role of the criminal justice and penal policy process and the criminal justice policy-making context.
In 2011 there were 640 civil cases and 226 penal cases processed by the Vatican's judiciary, 99 per cent of which involved some of the 18 million tourists who pass through the Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica each year.
But Clarke pointed to a range of Labour reforms that he regarded as progressive, including the Freedom of Information and Human Rights Acts, and said that before he resigned as home secretary he had been planning to embark on a process of penal reform.
While he theorizes and dreams of a wholly new political order in Cuba, the country's small human rights movement, battered by repeated jailings and harassment, confines its efforts to a more modest battleground: improvements in areas like freedom of expression and movement, due legal processes and penal reforms.
Chapman's cringing process through the penal system is always amusing, but the other inmates' stories — and there are a lot of them — tend toward big-house clichés, right down to lines like "You need to man up" and "Hope is a dangerous thing".
