In the old days there was the punitive element in penitentiary or reforming hostels.
He has set up a sort of producers' and consumers' penitentiary in this matter.
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.
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).
Bentham hoped to use prison labour to make prisons self-sufficient, even profitable; he envisioned the entire penitentiary system run by private enterprise.
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.
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.
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.
