State Penitentiary or State Pen may refer to one of various active and former penitentiaries within the United States:
- Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa
- Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Morgan County, Tennessee
- Colorado State Penitentiary
- Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Fox River State Penitentiary, a fictional penitentiary in the television series Prison Break
- Old Idaho State Penitentiary
- Iowa State Penitentiary
- Kentucky State Penitentiary
- Louisiana State Penitentiary
- Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Missouri State Penitentiary
- Nebraska State Penitentiary
- Penitentiary of New Mexico - Also referred to as the New Mexico State Penitentiary
- North Dakota State Penitentiary
- Ohio State Penitentiary
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- the defunct Ohio Penitentiary
- Oklahoma State Penitentiary
- Oregon State Penitentiary
- Río Piedras State Penitentiary in Puerto Rico
- South Dakota State Penitentiary
- Washington State Penitentiary
- West Tennessee State Penitentiary
- West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia
- Wetumpka State Penitentiary, formerly Alabama State Penitentiary
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“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)