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pen·i·ten·tia·ry ˌpe-nə-ˈten(t)-sh(ə-)rē 
plural penitentiaries
1
a
: an officer in some Roman Catholic dioceses vested with power from the bishop to deal with cases of a nature normally handled only by the bishop
b
capitalized : a cardinal presiding over a tribunal of the Roman curia (see curia sense 3) concerned with dispensations (see dispensation sense 2) and indulgences
pen·i·ten·tia·ry ˌpe-nə-ˈten(t)-sh(ə-)rē
sense 1 also -ˈten(t)-shē-ˌer-ē
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Noun a sentence in the state penitentiary for robbery
Recent Examples on the Web
Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 Innocence Project New Orleans said Dent was released Monday from the state penitentiary. CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022 Instead, the state is offering housing on or near the Angola campus for juvenile justice staff who agree to temporarily relocate to the penitentiary in a rural stretch of northern Louisiana near the Mississippi line. Erin Einhorn, NBC News, 21 July 2022 Anthony and Joe Russo direct this spy/action thriller wherein Ryan Gosling plays a CIA operative plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handle (Billy Bob Thornton). Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 1 July 2022 In 1962, three inmates escaped from the notorious Alcatraz Island penitentiary and were never seen again. Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022 Three men escaped from notorious Alcatraz Island penitentiary in 1962 and have never been apprehended. Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022 At the time, Mr. Andrews was serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary in Arizona for a 1986 double homicide. Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022 An inmate was fatally stabbed at the Beaumont penitentiary in 2007, followed a few months later by an inmate strangled to death by his cellmates, AP reports. Peter Weber, The Week, 31 Jan. 2022 Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022 Proponents of the moratorium on new prisons slammed the report’s findings, saying that a new women’s penitentiary undercuts efforts to reduce incarceration in favor of treatment and rehabilitation. Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2022 The Melekhovo facility has been the subject of multiple media investigations revealing brutality in the Russian penitentiary system and systematic abuse of prisoners by guards and other convicts. Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 14 June 2022 Kitchen then phoned the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and learned that White was incarcerated at the Darrington Unit, a penitentiary thirty miles outside Houston. The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022 Violence in prisons has been escalating in recent years, but this was the worst penitentiary massacre in the South American country's history. Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Sep. 2021 Burke was sentenced to 17 years, and Hodges to 12 years, in the federal penitentiary system. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 Dec. 2021 Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021 Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021 See More
Noun
Bulger’s body was barely cold by the time law enforcement sources were telling us that Geas and DeCologero were the chief suspects in the murder of the Boston gangster at the Hazelton federal penitentiary in West Virginia in 2018. Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 Innocence Project New Orleans said Dent was released Monday from the state penitentiary. CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022 Instead, the state is offering housing on or near the Angola campus for juvenile justice staff who agree to temporarily relocate to the penitentiary in a rural stretch of northern Louisiana near the Mississippi line. Erin Einhorn, NBC News, 21 July 2022 Anthony and Joe Russo direct this spy/action thriller wherein Ryan Gosling plays a CIA operative plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handle (Billy Bob Thornton). Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 1 July 2022 In 1962, three inmates escaped from the notorious Alcatraz Island penitentiary and were never seen again. Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022 Three men escaped from notorious Alcatraz Island penitentiary in 1962 and have never been apprehended. Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022 At the time, Mr. Andrews was serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary in Arizona for a 1986 double homicide. Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022 An inmate was fatally stabbed at the Beaumont penitentiary in 2007, followed a few months later by an inmate strangled to death by his cellmates, AP reports. Peter Weber, The Week, 31 Jan. 2022 Adjective
Hundreds of thousands of people work in the federal penitentiary system and not all of them love Putin. Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022 Proponents of the moratorium on new prisons slammed the report’s findings, saying that a new women’s penitentiary undercuts efforts to reduce incarceration in favor of treatment and rehabilitation. Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2022 The Melekhovo facility has been the subject of multiple media investigations revealing brutality in the Russian penitentiary system and systematic abuse of prisoners by guards and other convicts. Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 14 June 2022 Kitchen then phoned the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and learned that White was incarcerated at the Darrington Unit, a penitentiary thirty miles outside Houston. The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022 Violence in prisons has been escalating in recent years, but this was the worst penitentiary massacre in the South American country's history. Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Sep. 2021 Burke was sentenced to 17 years, and Hodges to 12 years, in the federal penitentiary system. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 Dec. 2021 Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021 Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun and Adjective
Middle English penitenciary, from Medieval Latin poenitentiarius, from poenitentia
First Known Use
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Adjective
1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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