Words similar to penal

Example sentences for: penal

How can you use “penal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

it's not by accident that one con speaks of 'the penis, not the penal, system.
His tales work by accretion: After 353 pages and 11 months in prison, Wachtler has made a persuasive case for penal reform: to free nonviolent criminals, scrap drug laws, fund prison education and training programs, and more.
The word, clearly, is penile , from penis; penal comes from the lantin poena `pain or punishment.
"The Laogai Archipelago" describes China's massive, awful penal system, which imprisons between 6 million and 8 million people and favors such barbarous practices as slave labor, torture, and organ-harvesting from executed convicts.
(Or perhaps not, I've misplaced my copy of the penal code.)