parapenal

English

Etymology

para- +‎ penal

Adjective

parapenal (not comparable)

  1. Serving the same functions as the penal system but operating separately.
    • 1979, Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan, Discipline and Punish, page 295:
      The entire parapenal institution, which is created in order not to be a prison, culminates in the cell, on the walls of which are written in black letters: "God sees you."
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