| 词汇 | penitentiary |
| 释义 | penitentiary noun[ C ] USuk /ˌpen.ɪˈten.ʃər.i/ us /ˌpen.əˈten.ʃər.i/ a state or federalprison（州或联邦）监狱 Prisons & parts of prisons approved school Bastille boot camp borstal brig gaol gaoler halfway house HMP nick open prison panopticon penal colony prison straightjacket straitjacket the gulag warder young offender institution youth custody penitentiary | American Dictionarypenitentiary noun[ C ] us/ˌpen·ɪˈten·tʃər·i/ a prison: a federal/state penitentiary Examples of penitentiarypenitentiary But how did this affect the lives of individual inmates inside prisons and penitentiaries? The forming of such identity is encouraged by means of new institutional practices ranging from public education and the professions to the police and penitentiary. Its editors have been at the forefront of research on the archive of the penitentiary, which became generally available for research only in 1983. One penitentiary inmate complained in 1921 that he had not had a bath for over a year. Residents of care-institutions, penitentiaries, homes for the elderly, and holiday homes were excluded. This new consideration of space had a profound influence on areas as diverse as urban development and penitentiary systems. Ceremonies featured groundbreaking for a new penitentiary, the opening of a modern asylum for the insane, and the celebration of new schools and educational congresses. The earliest series of its records begins in the fifteenth century and consists of registers of petitions for these favours heard and approved by officials of the penitentiary. The graces recorded in them illustrate the daily business of the penitentiary, enabling clerics to obtain advancement, absolving penitents and granting small favours to laity and clergy alike. Most prisoners emanate from lower socioeconomic groups, and therefore the inverse relationship between health and income has important consequences for criminal justice organisations, especially the penitentiary. Bentham hoped to use prison labour to make prisons self-sufficient, even profitable; he envisioned the entire penitentiary system run by private enterprise. Vicinus, for instance, notes that the "pure" sisters and "fallen" women in penitentiaries were carefully segregated to ensure that the nuns would "keep their hands metaphorically unstained" (78). I have no exact information as to the population of the general penitentiary during these months, but the estimated population for the year was 900. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has set up a sort of producers' and consumers' penitentiary in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the old days there was the punitive element in penitentiary or reforming hostels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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