Sentence examples for the penitentiaries from inspiring English sources
noun
A state or federal prison for convicted felons.
Fights are frequent as members of street gangs, known as maras, struggle to gain control inside the penitentiaries.
Most men in the penitentiaries have their masks literally painted on in the form of prison tats.
The Illinois Department of Corrections officials locked down the penitentiaries in the '90s and there was a time when the gang chiefs could control the streets from their jail cells.
At the moment 1,100 adolescents are being kept in the penitentiaries.
This particular situation could be due to the fact that all of the penitentiaries examined in our study are jails where the prisoners are confined waiting for judgement or condemned to punishments less than 5 years.
This isn't the penitentiary.
"They put me in the penitentiary.
Gregory Stey, a correctional officer at the penitentiary.
You can't put everybody in the penitentiary.
When should they go to the penitentiary in Huntsville?
Meanwhile, the penitentiary and its prisoners remain shrouded in secrecy.
