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Penitentiary (disambiguation)
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Prison or penitentiary, is a correctional facility. In the U.S., see separate articles for 'State Prisons' and 'Federal Penitentiaries.'
Look up calaboose, correctional facility, gaol, incarcerate, or jail in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Penitentiary may also refer to:
- Apostolic Penitentiary, a tribunal of mercy, responsible for issues relating to the forgiveness of sins in the Roman Catholic Church
- canon penitentiary, a clergyman attached to a major church to serve as a general confessor
- Penitentiary (1938 film)
- Penitentiary (1979 film)
- Penitentiary Point, a cliff in Utah
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