A royal decree, dated February 1891, established three classes of prisons: judiciary prisons, for persons awaiting examination or persons sentenced to arrest, detention or seclusion for less than six months; penitentiaries of various kinds (ergastoli, case di reclusione, detenzione or custodia), for criminals condemned to long terms of imprisonment; and reformatories, for criminals under age and vagabonds. [Please select]
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An act passed in 1779 provided for the erection of two penitentiaries. [Please select]
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I am not sure that a kindergarten in every ward of every city in America "would almost shut up the penitentiaries, sir." [Please select]
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Gentlemen of fashion arranged pleasure parties to visit the penitentiaries for women to see the wretched inmates whipped. [Please select]
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There were men of education, representatives of all the learned professions, men versed in business, and along with them adventurers and men of doubtful antecedents, graduates of prisons and penitentiaries. [Please select]
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