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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Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection said 29 people who were held in different correctional facilities across the country were transferred to the US.
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Polo Sandoval, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
Domingo touched upon the unique environment of the film, which involved working with actual inmates inside various inactive correctional facilities.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
The training school was a juvenile correctional facility that served boys and men between the ages of 12 and 21.
—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
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Polo Sandoval, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
Domingo touched upon the unique environment of the film, which involved working with actual inmates inside various inactive correctional facilities.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
The training school was a juvenile correctional facility that served boys and men between the ages of 12 and 21.
—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
See All Example Sentences for correctional facility
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“Correctional facility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/correctional%20facility. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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