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Contexts ▼▲ Noun A state or federal prison for convicted felons Adjective Serving, or being inflicted, as punishment Pertaining to penance or penitence … more ▼ ▲ Noun ▲ A state or federal prison for convicted felons prison gaolUK jailUS jailhouse coop slammer can clink cooler hold joint lockup reformatory stockade brig pen bastille bridewell calaboose guardroom hock hoosegow jug nick pokey slam quod stir tolbooth inside correctional institution house of correction penal colony penal institution big house labor camp dungeon guardhouse pound correctional facility borstal cell lock-up detention center boot camp detention camp up the river glasshouse boob bird roundhouse chokey house of detention tollbooth poky keep solitary bullpen detention centre place of confinement young offender institution place of detention youth custody centre approved school skookum house black hole secure unit confinement choky icebox tank penal complex detention facility concentration camp big cage the river prisoner-of-war camp city hotel prison camp POW camp military prison big school cells oubliette police cell rack corrective facility institution open prison detention home remand home enclosure yard cage camp fort sty protection palisade corral paling fence barrier gulag reform school Konzentrationslager fenced area enclosed area death camp killing fields gas chamber internment camp forced-labor camp statesville top-security prison young offenders' institution den precinct bail hostel vault hutch donjon chamber hole bocardo birdcage mew underground prison underground cell aviary torture chamber thieves' hole fold pinfold “As she gazed at her new domicile, Virginia did not feel at home, but rather as if she was being sent into a penitentiary.” Adjective ▲ Serving, or being inflicted, as punishment reformative punitive penal punitory disciplinarian disciplinary correctional castigating castigative castigatory chastening chastising disciplining penalisingUK penalizingUS correcting corrective reformatory retributive punishing retributory retaliative vindicatory vindictive retaliatory revengeful in retaliation justificatory defensive in reprisal vengeful avenging reciprocal reactive tit-for-tat ordered Adjective ▲ Pertaining to penance or penitence penitential regretful remorseful repentant sorry contrite penitent rueful apologetic attritional compunctious chastened mournful atoning sorrowful sad conscience-stricken self-reproachful guilt-ridden ashamed shamefaced sheepish guilty full of regret in sackcloth and ashes self-condemnatory abject propitiatory supplicating self-incriminating on one's knees hangdog self-accusing afraid bad humble shamed awful repenting deprecatory conciliatory explanatory diffident expiatory red-faced self-effacing abashed mortified embarrassed uncomfortable discomfited distressed disappointed awkward unhappy disturbed troubled tormented terrible rotten extremely sorry very sorry deeply saddened with one's tail between one's legs humiliated humbled disgraced chagrined Find more words! 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