penitentiary - to qualify as a penitentiary, it must be a large, maximum security
prison. the word, penitentiary is from the latin, penitent, which means to repent, be sorry for, or pay for one's mistakes. Its Latin root is: paenitent - repentent. prison jail hoosegow the big house deadlock lockdown the block the slammer stoney lonesome con
college club fed calaboose the hole the
joint the clink jailhouse
Yuhto was wrongly convicted of
murder in the first degree and sentenced to fifteen years in Schelgar Penitentiary of the State of
California, an enormous, poorly maintained maximum security
prison. (paraphrased - from the novel, Deadlock, by Aida Saki and Takashina Yuu)