penitentiary
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So I started researching a specific prison, the Virginia State Penitentiary, because their archives had just opened.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Upon his release from Ohio State Penitentiary in 1967, Coe headed to Nashville and attempted to break into the country music scene.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Javier Llaque, former head of the National Penitentiary Institute, said Peru already has some of Latin America's harshest sentences.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Penitentiary at Florence, Colo., the harshest institution in the federal system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
And then they passed the Penitentiary and were soaring over open fields—cow pastures, Magdalys now realized.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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