penal
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The penal code criminalises certain forms of offence or insult against the king, the royal family and the monarchy.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The setup implies that Carrie—intellectually curious, a clandestine book reader, a guileless innocent for whom Ms. Howell makes us ache—is being liberated from Margaret’s fundamentalist penal colony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
According to Human Rights Watch, "several penal code provisions, as well as the cybercrime law, criminalise speech deemed insulting to religion, the emir or foreign leaders".
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
In fall 2025, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 847, which amended the penal code to allow oversight commissions to receive confidential sheriff’s department documents and review them in closed session.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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