The word 'penitentiary' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a prison or correctional facility where offenders serve out their sentences. For example: "The released prisoner had served five years in the penitentiary for his crime."
In one São Paulo penitentiary he visited, 62 people were crammed in a cell meant for 12, taking turns to sleep on the floor or by leaning against a wall.
It is hard to believe he was once one of Taiwan's most feared triad leaders, or that he was incarcerated in a maximum-security American penitentiary for ten years on drug-trafficking charges.
Nothing in the constitution says that prisoners must be held in government-owned or -operated facilities, and as the report explains, American prisons tended to be privately owned before the advent of the penitentiary system.
Cummins is a vast farm-based penitentiary that sits in bleak countryside, strewn with shanties and burned-out churches, 70 miles south-east of Little Rock.
But only a handful of the 1,400 graduates of a pioneering training institute for penitentiary staff have jobs in a system still dominated by the security forces, according to human-rights groups.
There is even a federal penitentiary named after him.Alaska likes to think of itself as the "last frontier"—a place where rugged entrepreneurs carve a living out of an unforgiving landscape.
It also holds Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", who in the Harvard directory for the class of 1962 gives his occupation as "prisoner", his awards as "eight life sentences", and his home address as US Penitentiary-Max, P.O.Box 8500, Florence, CO.In this section Reviewing the surveillance state Hard graft endangered The terrorists' prison Wheels, chains and leather What's in a name?
The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, a model progressive reformatory when it was built in 1829, has run public tours since it was turned over to the city in the 1980s.
Later, at Ohio State Penitentiary, doctors injected HeLa cells into prisoners without telling them what they were doing: some developed tumours as a result.Lacks had been dead a quarter-century before her children found out that descendants of their mother's cells still lived.
In 1829 the Eastern State Penitentiary, on Cherry Hill in Philadelphia, applied this so-called separate philosophy.
He escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary on April 23 , 1967 and in Memphis, Tenn., nearly a year later, on April 4, 1968, from a window of a neighbouring rooming house, he shot King, who was standing on the balcony of a motel room.
