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Example sentences for "penitentiaries"

Lexicographically close words:
penis; penitence; penitent; penitential; penitentials; penitentiary; penitently; penitents; penitus; penknife
  1. The greatest desire of a life man in our penitentiaries is to die outside of prison walls.

  2. In all the penitentiaries of the country, at the present time, convicts are required to perform some kind of useful labor.

  3. The cells of the Kansas and other penitentiaries are higher and better ventilated.

  4. THE TWIN HELLS A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries By John N.

  5. In this matter the Kansas and Iowa penitentiaries are far in advance.

  6. Other penitentiaries are supplied with bath-houses, and once each week the inmates are required to take a bath.

  7. It is said that "rocks talk" in the penitentiaries as well as on the outside.

  8. These institutions, in other words, with the exception of the penitentiaries and other institutions for segregation, should aim at overcoming defective character in individuals.

  9. Other evidence could be cited, but the statistics of our state penitentiaries may be considered conclusive when all facts are taken into consideration.

  10. Again, the administration of some of our state penitentiaries with an eye to profit only, makes them places for the deformation of character rather than for its reformation.

  11. The average of men in our state penitentiaries is frequently not above twenty-seven or twenty-eight years.

  12. As she takes her place with men she will be more and more judged as men are judged, and will commit the crimes that men commit, and perhaps furnish her fair quota to the penitentiaries and jails.

  13. I then had to explain that the prisons and penitentiaries of my own land, and of all other civilized lands that I knew of, were almost exclusively occupied by the male sex.

  14. The penitentiaries were reconstructed by the female government.

  15. With regard to the first part of this statement it is often objected that but few of these foreign immigrants come upon the rates, and that our workhouses and penitentiaries show comparatively faint signs of their presence.

  16. Here the jails are full, the penitentiaries are crowded, and the hangman is busy.

  17. Now many mechanics are complaining because work done in the penitentiaries is brought into competition with their work.

  18. We, I suppose, are a civilized nation, and yet all the penitentiaries are crammed; there is want on every hand, and my opinion is that we had better turn our attention to this world.

  19. Whether in every archdeaconry there are sufficient penitentiaries of the bishop (for cases reserved to the bishop?

  20. This was not to prevent the clergy from going to other penitentiaries appointed by the bishop.

  21. United States prisoners are now confined in more than thirty different State prisons and penitentiaries scattered in every part of the country.

  22. Peter's, where the minor Penitentiaries are Conventuals of S.

  23. Mary Major's, where the minor Penitentiaries are Dominicans.

  24. The present kind wardens (Hoyle and Reilly) of the two penitentiaries of California have granted me many more opportunities to enjoy heart-to-heart talks with the prisoners than I am able to relate.

  25. In 1911 catalogs of the libraries in the penitentiaries at Atlanta and at McNeil Island were prepared by the prison librarians and printed.

  26. The final judgment condemned the leaders of the movement to severe punishment in penitentiaries and the galleys.

  27. Protestant sympathies began to spread far and wide through the land, even among native Catholics, fostered by English missionaries, Bibles and tracts, which the governments sought in vain to check by prisons, penitentiaries and exile.

  28. The board consisted of the warden of the prison, the doctor, and the official who presided at all parole board meetings at the various federal penitentiaries throughout the country,--Robert LaDow.

  29. Penitentiaries for condemned prisoners--the classical prison experts make no distinction between their cells for prisoners before trial and those for convicts!

  30. If the population of prisons or penitentiaries should happen to be declining, this is immediately interpreted to mean that crime is on the decrease.

  31. Penitentiaries are not proper receptacles for infant villains.

  32. Strictly it may be said that all penitentiaries and other similar institutions are concrete protests on behalf of a better family life.

  33. In the penitentiaries the fund received from visitors' fees is used for this purpose.

  34. In the fifth century, after the schism of Novatus and Novatian, penitentiaries were instituted for the absolution of such as had fallen into idolatry.

  35. If you have a stock of enormous sins on hand, you have also grand penitentiaries to absolve you.

  36. In the penitentiaries and hospitals we find that many are there because they have been guilty of the same wrongs.

  37. We can never empty the reformatories, penitentiaries and asylums until we quit producing these classes.

  38. Look at the enervated and stunted fathers, the nervous and sickly mothers, the puny and weak children, the poorly developed babies and dwarfed minds, the crowded reformatories, penitentiaries and asylums.

  39. Multiple child-bearing produces invalid wives and kills many loving mothers and fills our penitentiaries and asylums with delinquents.


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