1. penal - Adjective
2. penal - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. Christopher Hitchens
The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order. P. D. James
I respect your right to put them to me. You will no doubt respect my right to tell you that I do not think all the points in sum amount to a basis for a rational penal policy. Roy Jenkins
The softness, and the glare, and the temptations, and the licence, and the lax examples about us, are more seducing and dangerous than the winter of penal laws. They hardened the manhood of Catholic parents. The summer sun relaxes many. Henry Edward Manning
The crime [homosexuality] was subject to punishment by both secular and ecclesiastical courts-just as now it is subject to punishment by both penal and psychiatric sanctions. Thomas Szasz
Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war. Alfred de Zayas