penological
- a word derived from penology.
Example Sentences
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“This labor serves no legitimate penological or institutional purpose,” the suit said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023
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
“The distinctive attributes of youth,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in Miller, “diminish the penological justifications for imposing the harshest sentences on juvenile offenders, even when they commit terrible crimes.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2019
Home confinement, he wrote, would be “a penological joke,” while probation with community service “is too lenient and too easily co-opted for its “PR” value.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2019
Not only was Queed an acknowledged authority on both taxation and penological science, but he had enjoyed the advantage of writing articles on both themes under Colonel Cowles's personal direction.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
