correctional facility
noun
plural correctional facilities
: a place where people are kept when they have been arrested and are being punished for a crime : a prison
The state's largest correctional facility is nearly full.
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This proposal would have required the Department of Corrections to keep state correctional facilities at no less than 65 degrees and no greater than 80 degrees.
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Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
In each district, there would be an office assistant, an investigator to look into complaints and systemic problems, associate ombuds who would spend the majority of their time inside the correctional facilities and a medical consultant.
—Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
The number of correctional facilities also grew by 43 percent between 1990 and 2005, from 1,277 to 1,821.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
After the verdict, Blount was handcuffed and returned to Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight correctional facility, where he’d been jailed the past four years awaiting trial for shooting Bridget Knighton.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
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Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
In each district, there would be an office assistant, an investigator to look into complaints and systemic problems, associate ombuds who would spend the majority of their time inside the correctional facilities and a medical consultant.
—Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
The number of correctional facilities also grew by 43 percent between 1990 and 2005, from 1,277 to 1,821.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
After the verdict, Blount was handcuffed and returned to Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight correctional facility, where he’d been jailed the past four years awaiting trial for shooting Bridget Knighton.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Correctional facility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/correctional%20facility. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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