Penitentiary

Definitions: Penitentiary

Penitentiary

Adjective

1. Used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers; "penitentiary institutions".

Noun

1. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "penitentiary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonym: Penitentiary

Clergy

Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen, flamen; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director.

Penitence

Penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed, reborn; not hardened; unhardened.

Prison

Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.

Crosswords: Penitentiary

This is a hospital Mr. Clifford, not a penitentiary, everything obtaining to one of our patients is recorded in that patient's folder, weather you can make sense of it, or not! (When a Stranger Calls; writing credit: Steve Feke; Fred Walton)

And who'ed think in elementary, heeeey i'd see tha penitentiary (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary (BORN IN THE U.S.A.; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

State Penitentiary (1950)

The Penitentiary (1938)

Penitentiary (1938)

Life in a Western Penitentiary (1914)

Red Desert Penitentiary (1985)

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Books

• Memoir of Rev. Charles T. Torrey,: Who Died in the Penitentiary of Maryland, Where He Was Confined for Showing Mercy to the Poor (reference)

• Penitentiary in Crisis: From Accommodation to Riot in New Mexico (Suny Series in Deviance and Social Control) (reference)

• Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87 (reference)

• Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (reference)

• The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940 (New Interpretations of Latin ame (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Penitentiary (EP edition) (reference)

• Penitentiary 2 (reference)

• Penitentiary 3 (reference)

• Penitentiary (1979) (reference)

• Penitentiary Angel (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 20 to Life: Prison Blues -- Songs From the Angola State Penitentiary [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Penitentiary Blues (reference)

• Penitentiary Blues: Golden Classics (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Views of the Rebel capital and its environs. Penitentiary / Levy & Cohen.Credit: Library of Congress.

Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet.Credit: Library of Congress.

Penitentiary, Columbus, O[hio].Credit: Library of Congress.

State penitentiary. Jefferson City, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress.

Change of guard at Missouri state penitentiary. Jefferson City, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Evelyn Hauser, Red Corss nurse, prepares a volunteer blood donor at San Quentin for his donation. During the Red Cross mobile unit's visit to the penitentiary, 150 prisoners gave blood and more than twice that number volunteered but were unable to gi.Credit: Library of Congress.

Red Cross nurse Florence Aldrich readies a San Quentin prisoner for his blood donation during one of the Red Cross mobile unit's visits to the penitentiary.Credit: Library of Congress.

Warden Clinton T. Duffy of the San Quentin penitentiary talks with two men who are resting for a few minutes after giving blood to the Red Cross blood bank.Credit: Library of Congress.

One of many similar signs strung along the fence enclosing San Quentin penitentiary grounds.Credit: Library of Congress.

Minn. state penitentiary.Credit: Library of Congress.

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So far, it was nothing more than a penitentiary matter.

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Civil Liberties

Panama

On May 16, the judge of the 10th Criminal Court accepted Bernal's right to appeal based on Bernal's position that at the time of the incident Sosa was not a guard at the penitentiary on Coiba Island, and therefore could not bring charges. (references)

Economic History

The Holy See

The Apostolic Penitentiary deals with matters of conscience; the Roman Rota is responsible for appeals, including annulments of marriage; and the Apostolic Signatura is the final court of appeal. (references)

Costa Rica

However, the government expects to use the law in upcoming concession contracts for the national railroad, two Pacific ports, a new road to those ports from San Jose, and a new penitentiary facility. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

In April 2000, the Minister of Territorial Administration and the Secretary of State for Territorial Administration in charge of penitentiary administration visited Douala and Yaounde prisons. (references)

Cameroon

In the north, the Government permits traditional Lamibe (chiefs) to detain persons outside the government penitentiary system, in effect in "private prisons." The places of detention in the palaces of the traditional chiefs of Rey Bouba, Gashiga, Bibemi, and Tcheboa have the reputation of seriously mistreating their inmates. (references)

Brazil

In January a convicted drug trafficker was hanged in his cell at the maximum-security Bangu penitentiary, in a manner that the authorities stated ruled out suicide. (references)

Worker Rights

Cameroon

The law provides for the protection of workers engaged in legal strikes and prohibits retribution against them; however, these provisions of the law do not apply to civil servants, employees of the penitentiary system, or workers responsible for national security. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "penitentiary": penitentiary offense ♦ penitentiary system. Additional references.

Beginning with "penitentiary": penitentiary-like.

Albanian

pendimi (penitential), pendese (penitential), ndëshkimor (disciplinary, penal, punitive, vindictive), i dënueshëm me ligj, disiplinor (disciplinary), burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, pen, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متابة, ‏مجمع التوبة الرسولي, ‏تكفيري, ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw), ‏الكاهن المكلف, ‏إصلاحية (community home, reformatory), ‏إصلاحي (corrective, reformative, reformist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

наказуем със затвор, затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, gaol, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stockade, stopper), папски трибунал, изправителен дом (bridewell, pen, workhouse), изправителен (amendatory, reformative). (various references)

Czech

polepšovna (industrial school, reformatory), káznice (workhouse). (various references)

Dutch

International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation (International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation), International Penal and Penitentiary Commission (International Penal and Penitentiary Commission (> IPPF)). (various references)

Farsi 

ندامتی , ندامتگاه , دارالتادیب (Reformatory), بازداشتگاه یازندان مجرمین . (various references)

Finnish

kuritushuone (convict prison, imprisonment penitentiary, prison for convicts sentenced to solitary confinement and hard labour). (various references)

French

prison, pénitentiaire, pénitencier, pénitencerie, maison centrale. (various references)

German

zuchthaus (penal servitude, prison, prison for convicts sentenced to solitary confinement and hard labour, sentence of penal servitude). (various references)

Greek 

σωφρονιστήριο (reformatory). (various references)

Hebrew 

כלא (confinement, jail, prison), בית כלא (jail, prison). (various references)

Hungarian

börtön (can, cells, confine, coop, gaol, hold, hoosegow, jail, jailhouse, jug, limbo, lockup, prison, prison house, quad, quod, stir, stockade), javítóintézet (detention home, house of correction, reformatory), gyónató, fegyház (big house, gaol, jail, zoo), büntető (penal, penalty, punitive). (various references)

Italian

penitenziario (penal establishment, penal institution, prison), carcere (can, gaol, jail, oubliette, prison). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刑務所 (prison). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けいむしょ (prison). (various references)

Manx

pryssoon (brig, gaol, glasshouse, jail, lock up, prison). (various references)

Pig Latin

enitentiarypay

Portuguese

penitenciário, penitenciária (zoo), sagrada penitenciária, relativo a penitência, reformatório penal, cardeal penitenciário, cadeia (cage, calaboose, cascade, catena, chain, choky, clink, cufflink, ewer, fetter, gaol, jail, jug, network, orlop, pokey, prison, prison house, quad, quod, shackle, stockade, ward, warp). (various references)

Romanian

penitenciar, tribunal papal, de penitenciar, de corecţie (penitent), casã de corecţie (bridewell, reformative, reformatory, workhouse). (various references)

Russian 

каторжная тюрьма. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokajnički (penitential, remorseful, repentant), kazneni zatvor, kazneni (penal, punitive, retributive, vindicatory), kažnjenički. (various references)

Spanish

penitenciaría. (various references)

Swedish

fängelse (bagnio, calaboose, can, clink, gaol, hold, imprisonment, jail, jailhouse, jug, limbo, Nick, pen, prison, prison house). (various references)

Turkish

pişmanlığa ait, suçluları ıslah etme ile ilgili, kilise mahkemesi başkanı rahip, hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, institution, jail, Nick, pen, penal institution, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward), cezaevi (calaboose, jail, penal institution, prison, quod, roundhouse, stockade), ıslahevi (approved school, bridewell, detention center, detention home, house of correction, reformatory, workhouse). (various references)

Ukranian 

в'язниця (bandhouse, cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, dump, gaol, jail, limbo, pound, prison, quod, slammer, ward), виправний будинок, виправний (correctional, corrective, corrigible, curative, redeemable, reformative, reformatory, remedial), пенітенціарій, пенітенціарний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trại cải tạo (bridewell, reform school, reformatory). (various references)

ergastula, ergastulo. (various references)

Misspellings

"Penitentiary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: penetentiary, penitantiary, penitentary, penitentuary, penitetiary. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: antipyrine, tripinnate.

-3 letters: entertain, inpatient, itinerant, itinerate, paternity, patienter, penetrant, pertinent, repentant.

-4 letters: antetype, antitype, aperient, entirety, entreaty, eternity, inertiae, intertie, intranet, paintier, penitent, renitent, retinite, tenantry, triennia, triptane.

-5 letters: arenite, ariette, entrain, entrant, entreat, inanity, inertia, interne, intrant, intreat, iterant, iterate, nattier, nettier, niterie, nitrate, nitrite, nittier, painter, pannier, partite, patient, pattern, peatier.

+3 letters: plenipotentiary.

+4 letters: antihypertensive, hyperventilating, hyperventilation.

+5 letters: antihypertensives, hyperalimentation, hyperpigmentation, hyperventilations, intraperitoneally.

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