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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Roman Curia
It is also the office of the cardinal penitentiary, at the end of the jubilee year, when the Holy Door is to be closed, to present to the pope the trowel and the mortar, to begin the walling up of the door.
It should be observed here that the chief penitentiary's powers of internal jurisdiction, even before the recent Constitution, held during the vacancy of the Holy See, while his power of external jurisdiction, with a few exceptions, was suspended.
The minor penitentiaries may not be removed by their superiors, either from Rome or from Loreto, without the permission of the Holy See.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13147a.htm

  
 Penitentiaries in the City of New York
The Penitentiary they built was a fortress-like structure four stories in height, featuring a central administration building, 65 by 74 feet, and two wings, each 200 by 50 feet with 250 individual prisoner cells, the first ever as standard inmate housing in the city prison system.
The management of the City Prisons, the care of the insane and paupers, and the care of the Penitentiary, together with the hospitals, covers already about 17,000 people, when originally not a quarter of that number was in contemplation.
In such plan the city prisons, the penitentiary and the workhouse, with the grounds thereto appertaining, and the stone quarry on Blackwell's island, and Riker's island, shall be assigned to the department of correction.
www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/penitentiary2.html

  
 Penitentiary
Penitentiary (n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
Penitentiary (n.) That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
linkspider.serversystems.net /dictionary/lookup/penitentiary

  
 Warden Best's Album
Corner view of the women's building at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City, Colorado; three-story stone building was built to house the female population at the prison; trees right side of photo; stairs lead down from second level on building's left side to walkway; hills in background; written along bottom: "Women's Quarters 9-30-32".
View of the calf pasture at Ranch #2 at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City, Colorado; open field in which three cows stand in foreground and middle ground; hills in background; cows are black and white Holstien; written along bottom: "Calf Pasture and Calfs Ranch #2".
View of the calf pasture at Ranch #2 at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City, Colorado; open field in foreground; herd of dairy cattle in background; cows are black and white Holstien; written along bottom: "Young Stock and Calf Pasture Ranch #2".
ccpl.lib.co.us /Prisons/BestAlbum.html

  
 Burk Foster's Site / Prison History / Baton Rouge Penitentiary
The penitentiary ideal which gave birth to the Baton Rouge Penitentiary was a product of the eighteenth century trend of political and social thought commonly referred to today as the Age of Enlightenment.
The penitentiary, which at first was an idea without physical form, was viewed as a humane, reformative alternative to other options in use at the time--capital punishment, corporal punishments, and local jails.
Governor Robertson's penitentiary proposal passed on March 23, 1822, calling for a new penitentiary to be built in New Orleans, on the east bank of the Mississippi, within three miles of city hall.
www.burkfoster.com /BatonRougePen.htm

  
 Kingston Penitentiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Originally constructed in 1833-34, and officially opened on June 1, 1835 as the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada," it is one of the oldest prisons in continuous use in the world.
Kingston Penitentiary is a maximum security prison located in
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingston_Penitentiary

  
 History - Ohio Pen 1984
But on June 24, 1968, the worst series of riots in the penitentiary's history began in the prison print shop, forcing a series of political decisions that was to culminate in the closing of the penitentiary 16 years later.
On October 28 and 29, 1834, 189 prisoners were marched under guard from a small frontier penitentiary on Scioto Street in Franklinton along the banks of the Scioto River to the partially finished new Ohio Penitentiary on Spring Street.
That order, the last execution to take place at the Ohio Penitentiary, was carried out September 20 when state correctional officials locked the doors and turned the keys over to property disposal experts in the Ohio Division of Public Works.
www.drc.state.oh.us /web/histop1.html

  
 penitentiary - definition by dict.die.net
(R. Ch.) (a) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
penitentiary adj : used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers; "penitentiary institutions" n : a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes [syn: pen ]
A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
dict.die.net /penitentiary

  
 Penitentiary.co.uk
Penitentiary never wishes to be a commercial success; our goal is to create music which we love to play, and that will hopefully influence other musicians in the world of metal...
12/4/05 - Penitentiary have decided to split up.
We hope to bring to listeners, music which contains elements of all kinds of metal, which does not all sound the same, and has a very energetic sound.We hope all our songs are unique, and have their own individuality.
www.penitentiary.co.uk

  
 Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services - Origin
The President and Directors of the Maryland Penitentiary noted in 1838, however, that "the experience of the past year has served to test the efficacy of the Auburn system of prison discipline in our Penitentiary, to the introduction of which the new workshops were expressly adapted." By 1841, the Auburn System was definitely in use.
It further directed the Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary to provide and maintain a permanent death chamber within the confines of the Maryland Penitentiary, where the condemned was to be held in solitary confinement.
Prisoners in the Maryland Penitentiary were kept at hard labor most of the time, either confined in their solitary cells (Philadelphia) or in a common but silent work area (Auburn).
www.mdarchives.state.md.us /msa/mdmanual/22dpscs/html/dpscsf.html

  
 THE HISTORY OF THE PENITENTIARY
John Howard, known as the father of the modern penitentiary, had stumbled upon something that was important in the public's eye.
BY N. Although prison is a term that one often likes to use when describing the facilities used to incarcerate convicted individuals, the word penitentiary more aptly describes this type of building.
The difference between a jail and the House of Safe Custody was that the House of Safe Custody did not imprison those individuals who had short sentence terms to serve.
www.richeast.org /htwm/jails/Jails.html

  
 08-402 Corrections Services - Louisiana State Penitentiary
The mission of the Louisiana State Penitentiary is to protect society from those individuals whose disrespect and violation of the law have caused them to be incarcerated as well as to assist offenders in becoming productive members of society by instilling the positive traits and values that are predominant in American society.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP), a maximum security facility, is located at Angola, on an isolated 18,000-acre site in the bend of the Mississippi River.
The goals of the Louisiana State Penitentiary are:
www.state.la.us /opb/exec-bud00/08-corr/08-402.html

  
 Section 217-910 Missouri state penitentiary redevelopme
Upon the dissolving of the commission, any funds remaining in the Missouri state penitentiary commission fund shall be transferred to the general revenue fund.
There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Missouri State Penitentiary Redevelopment Commission Fund", which shall consist of money collected pursuant to sections 217.900 to 217.910.
Money in the fund shall be used solely for the purposes of the Missouri state penitentiary redevelopment commission.
www.moga.state.mo.us /statutes/C200-299/2170000910.HTM

  
 University Press of Florida: Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829-1865
A modern study of prison reform, this work demonstrates that Alabama’s penitentiary system was established in direct response to the humanitarian prison reform movement that swept the country in the first half of the 19th century.
Though the penitentiary was turned over to private leasees in 1846, both systems of management were inadequate--under each, prisoners frequently escaped, manufactured goods never competed successfully with private enterprise, and prisoners suffered high mortality rates from poor living conditions and disease.
In fact, Alabama's penitentiary was modeled on the state prison in New York, and many aspects of both northern and southern state penitentiary systems were adopted by Alabama.
www.upf.com /book.asp?id=WARDXF03

  
 Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum/The Angola Story
The 18,000 acre Louisiana State Penitentiary, surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, has repeatedly faced serious threat of flooding, a situation made worse by its substandard levees, the only ones along the river that were not engineered and monitored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
It is the philosophy of Louisiana State Penitentiary to provide services in a professional manner so as to protect the safety of the public, the staff and the inmate population.
In that year the first Louisiana State Penitentiary was built at the corner of 6th and Laurel Streets in Baton Rouge using a plan similar to a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
www.angolamuseum.org /story.htm

  
 LawrenceJennifer.htm
While it is true that many of the penal philosophies of Europe’s eighteenth century thinkers took root in America’s penitentiaries, the penitentiary was molded and modified to fit an American attitude, an American manifestation of republican ideology that drew observers from around the world.
At stake was not the actual building of a penitentiary, but, rather, what system of a penitentiary- a debate that would transcend America’s borders and find fertile ground for discussion in Europe.
Tocqueville and Beaumont observed the heated public debates surrounding these institutions and they witnessed first hand the realities of both systems of incarceration while ultimately they withheld judgment of the systems until the publication of their monumental study On the Penitentiary System in United States and its Application in France published in 1833.
www.h-net.msu.edu /~shear/s2000.d/ab/LawrenceJennifer.htm

  
 Boot Hill: Stories from the British Columbia Penitentiary Cemetery
Unbeknownst to most local residents, included in a parcel carved from the penitentiary lands and donated by the developer to the City of New Westminster was the penitentiary cemetery, destined to become part of Glenbrook Ravine Park.
Two former penitentiary buildings were renovated as heritage properties, and the rest were razed.
In 1985 the site of the former British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster, BC, which had languished unoccupied for several years, was sold by the federal government to a private developer.
www.boothill.ca

  
 Stony Mountain Penitentiary
When the engineers came to lay the penitentiary they talked to him being the watchman of the property, and no gunshots were fired.
Rockwood is a minimum-security penitentiary, which is adjacent to Stony Mountain penitentiary.
A quarry owned and operated by the penitentiary is there.
www.wsd1.org /SargentPark/Heritage2002/mulitgrade/040/smp_page1.htm

  
 penitentiary on Encyclopedia.com
Two prisoners put up flags to mark the holes on the golf course at Louisiana State Penitentiary, maintained by prisoners, planned to be open to the public.
View of the golf course at Louisiana State Penitentiary, maintained by prisoners, planned to be open to the public.
All-New Halloween Tours Launch October 3 at Eastern State Penitentiary; `Terror Behind the Walls' Opens New Haunted Attraction in Abandoned Prison Print Shop.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-pentntry.asp

  
 Military Penitentiary of Ushuahia
he military penitentiary initially worked in Staes Island in San Juan de Salvamento, and then in Port Cook, and in 1902 it was transferred to Ushuaia for humanitarian reasons.
he penitentiary was the epicentre of a little growing village called Ushuaia by Comodore Augusto Leserre on 12th October 1884.
We can mention for example the anarchist Simón Radowitsky, Cayetano Santos Godino, whose nickname was "petiso orejudo" (short big-eared one), the writer Ricardo Rojas, and several officials overthrown in the revolution of 1955 that you can see in the photograph.
www.interpatagonia.com /paseos/presidioushuaia/index_i.html

  
 statepen.xml
Of all the prisons built during the spate of construction that followed, none was more famous or more imitated than the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the wellspring of design for over 300 prisons in America and abroad.
Supporters of the influential "Auburn plan" of incarceration (named after the penitentiary at Auburn, N.Y.) argued that silent labor was more conducive to moral reform.
The Records of Eastern State Penitentiary came from two disparate sources.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/s/statepen.xml

  
 An Inventory of Records Relating to the Penitentiary at the Texas State Archives, 1846-1921, undated
Additionally, special topical reports by these and other parties are present, concerning investigations of the financial agents in the 1860s, freedmen in the penitentiary at the close of the Civil War, the construction of Rusk Penitentiary, surveying prospective land for a state prison farm, and an engineer's report on Rusk.
The reports were directed to the Governor and relate the condition of the penitentiary, either from direct observation by Board members, or reported to them by the superintendent or other prison officials.
Rusk Penitentiary, initially known as the East Texas Penitentiary, was built in the late 1870s - early 1880.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/20053/tsl-20053.html

  
 Penitentiary
Ohio State Penitentiary Paranormal investigation report and historical information about this penitentiary.
Papendick, Karl L. Images of the industrial waterfront in Philadelphia, an abandoned brewery, and Eastern State Penitentiary.
Prison Photography Eastern State Penitentiary - Northstar Gallery Photographic documentary of Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia Pa, Northstar Gallery.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Penitentiary.html

  
 Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
The Nebraska State Penitentiary uses the Unit Management concept designed to improve control and staff/inmate relationships by dividing the larger institution population into smaller, more manageable groups and to improve and personalize the delivery of rehabilitative services.
The Nebraska State Penitentiary in located is Lincoln, Nebraska at the intersection of Highway 2 and 14th Street.
The Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP) located in Lincoln, Nebraska is the oldest state correctional facility in Nebraska, opening in 1869.
www.corrections.state.ne.us /institutions/nsp.html

  
 ESP :: History :: Timeline
A "Penitentiary House," with a capacity of 16 single cells, is built in the Walnut Street Jail, and an experiment with day and night solitary confinement begins.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc., a nonprofit organization with the sole purpose of preserving the Penitentiary and opening it for tours, is formed.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site celebrates the tenth season of tours by opening several dramatic new vistas in the prison's cathedral-like cellblocks, and by introducing of a state-of-the-art " Voices of Eastern State " Audio Tour.
www.easternstate.org /history

  
 Correctional Service Canada - Organizations
The CSC Museum is housed in "Cedarhedge", the former warden's residence, of Kingston Penitentiary, at 555 King Street West, in Kingston, Ontario.
Displays will trace the flow of offenders from arrival to discharge, and will illustrate the various programs that are available to them.
Built by inmate labour between 1871 and 1873, the building is a fine example of Victorian architecture.
www.csc-scc.gc.ca /text/organi/org05-3_e.shtml

  
 LEGISLATIONLINE.ORG - free online legislation database
The Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia is managed by the Head of Penitentiary Department of the Republic of Armenia.
The Penitentiary Service of the Republic of Armenia is functioning in the system of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia and it is its structural subdivision.
The Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia includes the Penitentiary Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, places of pre-trial detention and corrective labor institutions.
www.legislationline.org /get.php?document=56685

  
 Rogue Valley rapist sets hostage free at state penitentiary - April 27, 2005
Convicted Rogue Valley rapist, kidnapper and three-time prison escapee Leighton Bates is back in a special lockdown at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem after he took a female guard hostage there late Monday before releasing her unharmed early Tuesday.
Rogue Valley rapist sets hostage free at state penitentiary - April 27, 2005
Rogue Valley rapist sets hostage free at state penitentiary
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0427/local/stories/03local.htm

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: RUSK PENITENTIARY
When the Rusk Penitentiary closed, the Huntsville Penitentiary was the sole remaining of its type, as the vast majority of convicts worked and lived on state prison farms.
The director of the penitentiary was usually an assistant superintendent, who reported to the superintendent in Huntsville, in charge of all state penal operations.
Prison officials removed large numbers of convicts from the Rusk Penitentiary to labor on the road, which a critic described as "stained with the blood of some helpless convict man or boy lashed cruelly by a savage prison guard or sergeant." Prisoners also received other forms of punishment for rule violations.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/jjr1.html

  
 Correctional Service of Canada - Institutional Profiles - Ontario Region
Kingston Penitentiary (KP) officially opened in June 1835 under the reign of King William IV, British North America's first "penitentiary" was initially called the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada", or the "Provincial Penitentiary" for short.
With the passing of the British North America Act and Confederation in 1867, the institution became more commonly known as "Kingston Penitentiary", and was one of three such institutions placed under the control of the federal government, along with facilities at Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. John, New Brunswick.
In the aftermath of the 1971 riot, Kingston Penitentiary was re-designated as Ontario Region's Reception Centre, a role it served until 1981.
www.csc-scc.gc.ca /text/facilit/institutprofiles/kingston_e.shtml

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