penal institution
Example Sentences
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The country’s largest penal institution, the maximum-security prison in the city of Zenica, is a case in point.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021
In the meantime, You will remain incarcerated in Johnson City unless circumstances arise that would require her to be transferred to another penal institution.
From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2019
Brady’s psychosis became well established, and he served his sentence in a penal institution for the insane until his death in 2016.
From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2018
Fortunately for you, you are not in a penal institution, even if your lunch mates act as if you are.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2014
It is absurd to place an old pensioned soldier or a hardened bureaucrat at the head of a penal institution.
From The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 by Ferri, Enrico
