Jim Brown

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

American Athlete

Joseph Prince

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

Clergyman

Florence Ellinwood Allen

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

American Judge

William Graham Sumner

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

American Businessman

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

American Soldier

Joe Jamail

I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.

Margaret Trudeau

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

Canadian Author

Babe Ruth

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

American Baseball Player

Lee J. Cobb

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.

American Actor

Suge Knight

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

American Producer

Penitentiaries generally imply severe punishment and are often reserved for serious offenses.

Severity Scale

Penitentiaries are portrayed in films and books as places with strict discipline and tough conditions.

Cultural Depictions

Historically, 'penitentiary' pointed to where inmates repented, hence its religious undertones.

Historical Usage

The adjective form connects to law and legal decisions made by courts or judges.

Judicial Connection

Penitentiary reforms often aim to improve conditions or address human rights within prisons.

Reform Movements

Penitentiary as an adjective is often used in the context of laws and legal policies.

Legal Policy

 to meet Oshea and find out who this person was who had taken her son's life. Slowly and remarkably, they became friends, and when he was finally released from the penitentiary, Oshea actually moved in next door to Mary. This is just a short excerpt of a conversation they had

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 penitentiary modern a maimed monument and and maimed mall for a maimed collection almost four decades later how would this building expand for a new progressive program where would it go can't go in the mall there is no space

A giant bubble for...

 Driving to the penitentiary on the day of his execution, in my mind, Bobby was going to be manic. But, surprisingly, he was very calm. And for two hours, he and I sat there and talked about life,

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 think he was caught off guard when they went in I don't think he was expecting it at all what happened next changed Wyoming State Penitentiary forever the inmates stabbed him repeatedly and

Prison Guard Preparation...

 to where they can't see in we'd be alright this is contraband this is a high contraband you could be taken to the whole for this this would be the penitentiary George Foreman grill

Money Behind Bars PIPE...

 of my interviewees is in a federal penitentiary maximum security and so he doesn't speak English so really I had no choice at all but as I said Portuguese is deceptive

Learning a new language...

 penitentiary the seven packs of marijuana will be destroyed it's been one more night of detect hunt down and arrest but life out here is cheap for drug

Desert Manhunt PIPE...

 respect in here is the most important number one thing that survived West Penitentiary prison yards are about territory territory you mark and hold

Ruggels the Rebel PIPE...

 all right prisoner strip down quickly I know I was screwed - in a minute I set foot in a penitentiary - they take a strip and they get a strip

Living the Prison Dream...

 at Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary scientists are on a hunt for

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