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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The training school was a juvenile correctional facility that served boys and men between the ages of 12 and 21.
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
That initiative, focused on inmate rehabilitation, has been studied by Harvard, replicated by the National Sheriffs' Association, and adopted in correctional facilities nationwide.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Federal regulations spell out that a jail or correctional facility may not hold a detainee for ICE for more than 48 hours past the date they were initially scheduled to be released, but many counties have been known to keep them longer, sparking a number of costly legal challenges over the years.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Correctional Health Care Service allowed ongoing abuse against women in state correctional facilities for decades, the complaint says.
—Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2025
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
That initiative, focused on inmate rehabilitation, has been studied by Harvard, replicated by the National Sheriffs' Association, and adopted in correctional facilities nationwide.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Federal regulations spell out that a jail or correctional facility may not hold a detainee for ICE for more than 48 hours past the date they were initially scheduled to be released, but many counties have been known to keep them longer, sparking a number of costly legal challenges over the years.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Correctional Health Care Service allowed ongoing abuse against women in state correctional facilities for decades, the complaint says.
—Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2025
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