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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Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake, the state's juvenile correctional facility for boys and girls in DOC's custody, also will be installing air tempering at their school building. —

Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024 King’s intent is to have every New York State correctional facility offer associate’s and bachelor’s degrees administered by SUNY. —

The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024 Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison and began serving that sentence in May 2019 at a federal correctional facility in New York. —

Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024 The properties include schools, child care centers, juvenile detention or correctional facilities, libraries, parks, playfields intended for sports, playgrounds, recreation centers and more. —

Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for correctional facility

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