Iceberg lettuce appears like a weather-beaten old friend, along with bottled salad dressing, slapped down on the coffee table along with an array of other condiments that cannot perform the kind of magic that would transform these silent meals into anything but ghastly and penitentiary-like.
They have even brought in prison specialists with experience at maximum security penitentiaries like the one in Leavenworth, Kan., to advise the American guards on techniques.
Major penitentiaries like Sing Sing became sites of repeated strikes and riots; a strike in 1877 even took on the transplanted Spuyten Duyvil iron-molding company.
It is no wonder the Alaska Republican Party is well represented at the Sheridan Federal Penitentiary with leadership like this.
I need to build a taller fence to keep out the deer, but I don't like that penitentiary look.
Outside, the motorway hotel squats like a penitentiary (in the early evening, the Polish receptionist is in negotiations with a large, half-naked man who is demanding an extra duvet).
Brimming with gangs divided by weird, regional, and ethnic distinctions the rest of the world can only half-understand, Russian prisons make American penitentiaries look like Science Museum lock-ins.
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.
The turn was necessary due to the fact that it was and still is difficult to live, even if you are an American citizen, in the dehumanized cities of late modernity, in which a factory-like and penitentiary model is extended even to houses (as if architects had turned into public works engineers).
"Hell on earth," he said, explaining what just five minutes as a visitor in a federal penitentiary could feel like, and he tried to recall those minutes each time he delivered a sentence.
