penitentiary - Definition from the JAIL AND PUNISHMENT topic - SOCIETY

Topic: JAIL AND PUNISHMENT

penitentiary
noun

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plural penitentiaries [countable] American English

SCJ a prison - used especially in the names of prisons:

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the North Carolina state penitentiary

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