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“This labor serves no legitimate penological or institutional purpose,” the suit said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

In a much-quoted 1981 dissent, he condemned the “simplistic penological philosophy that, if we lock the prison doors and throw away the keys, our streets will somehow be safe.”

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

Prisons can limit activities by inmates if there is a clear penological reason to do so, but in Cohen's case the proposed restrictions have nothing to do with prison management, Gillers said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2020

Palmer wrote that the death penalty “no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency and no longer serves any legitimate penological purpose.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2020

This is in itself a clear evidence of the demand that exists for penological reform.

From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by Kayll, James Leslie Allan