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41 examples of Penal in a sentence

But at the time when I started this project, the best explanation I could find for penal erection was that the wall surrounded these spongy tissues, and the spongy tissues filled with blood and pressure rose and voila! it became erect.
I feel he could of taken a person who is truly a victim of the penal system, there sure is enough of them and spread some light on their plight.
The poster for this film is an eerie green and Peter Lorre leers in way that makes you never want to go to his penal colony / island.
We must also point out that in this movie the sentenced man is not the usual nice innocent person we see in other movies dealing with executions which doesn't lead us to abandon the idea that a penal execution is no more than a legal murder anyway.
The story is about a group of criminals who escape from a space penal colony.
Is this the Patron Saint of the Star System at work, matching warring egos before sending them off to further penal servitude on the M-G-M lot? BUT. .
Your basic plot as is follows: Grange, this goombaesque thug from planet Earth, robs "the bank of the Moon" and is sentenced to a penal colony on a remote planet (I don't even remember the planet's name) to mine for bauxite and other minerals.
The young man I used to know is gone, not only because he is older, but due to his exposure for a prolonged time to the penal system.
Incredibly bad Future Prison movie in which sweaty leather-clad Vin Deisel wannabees run around a former mining asteroid turned penal institution shooting 20th century handguns at each other (as it was set in the 23rd Century, this is the equivalent of having James Bond run around with a muzzle loading flintlock) and generally being sweatily homo-erotically sadistic to everyone in sight.
In the case of the film, the delay was BRIEF compared to our modern penal system, as the delay looked to be about two years.
Henri 'Papillon' Charriere, was a lifetime inmate under the French government's harsh penal system in French Guiana.
The entire film is one remarkable story and becomes an incredible journey, one which transcends the screen and offers audiences, the raw reality of life under the most severe and brutal penal systems in the world.
These provisions were then included in colonial penal codes.
Jewish settlers act outside of the law and commit provocative acts harming Palestinians, rarely incurring any penal sanctions.
The result was Section 124A of the penal code, under which any person who used “words, signs, or visible representation … to excite disaffection against the government” could be charged with sedition and potentially sentenced to life imprisonment.
Then there is Section 377 of the penal code, which was enacted in 1860 and criminalizes “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” – wording so archaic that it would invite derision in most modern societies.
President Pranab Mukherjee, for one, feels it is time to take India’s penal code into the twenty-first century, underscoring last month, on the code’s 155th anniversary, the need to revise it thoroughly.
Fortunately, this article of Turkey’s penal code is now due for review and possible repeal.
In France, the offense was abolished when Napoleon introduced his new penal code in 1810.
At home, Putin has focused over the past year on dealing with his opponents – co-opting some and intimidating others by turning the Russian legal and penal systems into blunt instruments of repression.
The penal system has been re-organized under the Ministry of Justice.
According to the country’s penal code, the preferred punishment for murder is death by hanging.
The strategy involves monitoring the religious field; reforming the penal code; fighting social exclusion through the National Initiative for Human Development, launched by the government in 2005; and implementing the enhanced security apparatus “Hadar.”
The European Commission looked with approval on a succession of initiatives – a new penal code adopting “modern European standards,” training programs on the European Convention of Human Rights, expert missions from the European Union, and constitutional amendments seemingly guaranteeing much greater judicial independence.
In Hungary, for example, the penal code calls for two years imprisonment for personal possession by a drug-dependent person.
When George W. Bush was governor, a federal judge ruled that the state's entire penal system was pervaded by a "culture of sadistic and malicious violence."
Even in Western Europe, which boasts the most rehabilitation-oriented penal systems, ghastly scandals periodically erupt.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky opened his classic 1862 account of prison life, The House of the Dead, with a paean to the importance of work – even for those in Siberian penal colonies.
Overcoming India’s Official HomophobiaNEW DELHI – Sixty-six years after adopting one of the world’s most liberal constitutions, India is being convulsed by a searing debate over a colonial-era provision in its penal code, Section 377, which criminalizes “whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman, or animal.”
Russian politicians need to support penal reform and seek alternatives to incarceration, just as we do here.