Sentence examples for this penal from inspiring English sources

This penal colony, for example, houses 78 more inmates than its Soviet designers intended, and about 500 more than five years ago, said Sergei B. Svalkin, the warden.

After 15 months behind bars, seven of them in this penal colony in Mordovia, Nadya seemed to be descending into depression.

This "Penal Colony," which has a libretto by Rudolph Wurlitzer, is certainly not spelling out the secrets of a sphinx of a story whose meaning has always been debated.

But we have, on and off, heard similar things before over the last quarter of a century, and yet this penal era has been defined by an outright doubling of prisoner numbers, despite declining crime and an ageing population.

"The discovery the day before yesterday of the great scandal of the Welfare Island prison excited the public opinion over the fact to be known, that practically, this penal institution has been governed by two gangsters in company with police agents and the famous Tammany Hall.

This, after all, was the South of Jim Crow, this was the penal system that used the chain gang, the whip and the club.

Russian penitentiary authorities offered a rare tour of this specialized penal colony recently with an eye to demonstrating that these inmates receive no privileges.

This sprawling penal state has been constructed over decades, by both political parties, and it punishes the poor and racial minorities at overwhelmingly disproportionate rates.

This model penal code proved influential, and resulted in about 35 states' amending or codifying their laws to bring them closer in line with its provisions.

That this paragon of family feeling and amorous tenderness is also a killer, horse thief, and rageful rebel against the legal government of Australia is explained, in part, by the fact that he is Irish, heir to the woe the English have visited upon Ireland for centuries and are now visiting upon the Irish convicts in this continental penal colony.

That this paragon of family feeling and amorous tenderness is also a killer, horse thief, and rageful rebel against the legal government of Australia is explained, in part, by the fact that he is Irish, heir to the woe the English have visited upon Ireland for centuries and are now visiting upon the Irish convicts in this continental penal colony..