How to Use correctional facility in a Sentence

correctional facility

noun
  • 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
  • She was booked at the jail on a charge of bringing narcotics into a correctional facility.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 27 June 2024
  • She was sentenced to serve just under eight to 10.5 years at a state correctional facility.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Gatesville, Texas, a prison town a hundred miles north of Austin, has six correctional facilities, five of them housing female inmates.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Both Julie and Todd will serve their time at Florida correctional facilities, roughly two and a half hours away from each other.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • Hurst and Grant were housed in the same unit in different cells in the correctional facility and are believed to be together, authorities said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • Some of the programs are volunteer run, while others are funded by the state or correctional facility.
    — Andi Breitowich, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
  • But Bean said the sheriff’s office has also struggled in recent years to hire and retain jail staff members, a problem faced by many correctional facilities across the US.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Like many correctional facilities, the D.C. jail has grappled with how to stop prisoners from getting drugs.
    — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • An inmate in the Mobile Metro Jail was found unresponsive in his cell Tuesday and pronounced dead a short time later -- marking the fourth inmate death at the correctional facility in the past 50 days.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The pair are delicate in their approach to the narrative, building a process story and non-exploitative portrait of life in the correctional facility.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Greenman remained at the correctional facility Friday and her next court date was Aug. 17, according to jail records.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • All 20 were identified as leaders of the standoff and have been relocated to correctional facilities in other parts of the state, Heroux said.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Vo was sentenced in April 2024 to nine months in prison followed by a year of supervised release, but did not report to the correctional facility and remains a federal fugitive.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Word about disturbances at three correctional facilities — Riverview, Bare Hill and Franklin state prisons — was coming out via lawyers and correction sources.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The tomatoes, like all the produce harvested at the farm, go to other Alaska correctional facilities, as well as community food banks.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • As a minister Joo helped teens in youth shelters and correctional facilities.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The projects were filmed and recorded at a Topeka correctional facility, whose residents the singer had been corresponding with and inspiring.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
  • 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.
    — Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
  • According to the warrant affidavit, the warden of the correctional facility reportedly found that video surveillance footage of the incident was not in line with Blevons’ version of events.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The announcement that correctional facilities will be carved out from the rule was made by the agency’s standards board Thursday and came amid considerable pressure from labor groups to get protections in place for their members.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • He was sentenced in May 2019 to the juvenile correctional facility.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The act includes penalty enhancements if the person who is exposed to fentanyl is a first responder or an employee of a correctional facility.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • Huss was last seen picking up Dayan from a correctional facility in Kenai before heading to Anchorage, reportedly to work at his food truck.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The county is currently in the process of searching for an outside entity with expertise in the review of correctional facilities to carry out the external audit.
    — Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That program has since expanded across New York state correctional facilities and includes dance, music and writing.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • For states that want to participate in the program, the federal government is calling for correctional facilities to offer methadone and buprenorphine.
    — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Visitation at all state correctional facilities was canceled at some points during the strike.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
  • And that’s exactly what Defy fosters inside the walls of correctional facilities.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • He is being held without bond in a Miami-Dade correctional facility.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 2 May 2025

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