Penology in a sentence as a noun

Without knowing much about penology, punishment for the sake of punishment seems overused in the US.

[2][1] Justice Anton Scalia admitted as much in court, "Well, I thought that modern penology has abandoned that rehabilitation thing, and they--they no longer call prisons reformatories or--or whatever, and punishment is the--is the criterion now.

Penology definitions

noun

the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation

See also: poenology