penitentiary

Example Sentences

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In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, the Midwestern socialist leader, ran for president while locked up at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta.

From New York Times

The inconspicuous, pale yellow complex in eastern Moscow was built as a military penitentiary in 1881 and was used for low-ranking convicts sentenced to relatively short terms.

From Seattle Times

It’s shortly before 8 a.m. on March 16 — the Watts rapper’s first full day as a free man, after nearly a half-decade trapped in the Texas penitentiary system.

From Los Angeles Times

The facility will be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and the inmates serving prison sentences there will be moved elsewhere in the California penitentiary system.

From Seattle Times

He is serving life without parole in a federal “supermax” penitentiary in Colorado.

From New York Times