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)