Definition of "penitentiaries" [penitentiaries]

• Plural form of penitentiary. (noun)

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• "The Altrurians listened in silence, and I hoped they could not realize the facts, though the story was every word true; but what seemed to make them the most indignant was the treatment of the families of the prisoners in what we call our penitentiaries and reformatories."
• "Some times it is easier to communicate to men who are in penitentiaries, to men who are prisoners of our society and of our social conventions and of our economy; because they were men who were and had been deeply wounded, wounded because when they were young they had been born to squalor and lived in very difficult situations."
• "Right now, the practice sees offenders get credit for so-called "dead time" spent in detention centres prior to trial and sentencing, where there is no access to drug or alcohol treatment, rehabilitation or other therapeutic programs provided in long-term penitentiaries or provincial prisons."