Sentence examples for penitentiary has been from inspiring English sources

What punishment shall be considered as infamous may be affected by the changes of public opinion from one age to another, and for more than a century imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison or penitentiary has been considered an infamous punishment in England and America.

But Kaufman Astoria Studios, a massive complex in Queens with all the gray charm of a penitentiary, has been producing films for nearly a century, beginning with silent pictures, in the nineteen-twenties, and continuing into the streaming age—"Orange Is the New Black" is filmed there today.

Mr. Burns reads the note, and realizes that the penitentiary has been receiving free power for over thirty years; he responds to it by shutting off the penitentiary's power.

At this writing, Hoffa is serving a sentence in Lewisburg Penitentiary, having been found guilty of tampering with a jury.

Only 17 of around 1,100 prisoners at the national penitentiary have been convicted of a crime, and many detainees have not seen a judge.

Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal penitentiary had been constructed atop US military fortifications built in the 1800s.

The association, a 160-year-old organization with statutory authority to visit all 70 state penitentiaries, has been infuriating prison officials since 1846, when it first inspected Sing Sing and exposed how guards controlled inmates through whippings and what its report called "stoppage of diet".

Likewise, in federal penitentiaries there has been no corresponding increase in problems since parole was eliminated for federal crimes, according to the United States Bureau of Prisons.

The Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville has been in a number of films, including The Green Mile, Last Dance, and Walk the Line.

"The Anarchist," the heavily embroidered slip of a play now at the Golden Theater, takes place in a women's penitentiary, a setting that has been used memorably for many a lurid fiction.

Within the penitentiary system the project has been implemented in the Educational Establishment for Juveniles of the Penitentiary Department and the Prison #5 for Women and underage girls.