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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Of the 1,256 total inmates, 1,137 are housed at the correctional facility while the remaining 119 are at the camp.
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Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
State officials are working to incorporate programs and best practices at San Quentin from correctional facilities in countries like Norway, which boasts one of the lowest recidivism rates worldwide.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
The serial killer, who came to be known as the Killer Clown after being convicted of murdering at least 33 teen boys and young men throughout the 1970s, died while at a correctional facility in Illinois on May 10, 1994.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Smith only saw her son’s stardom from newspaper clippings, taping them up in her locker at the correctional facility in Tallahassee.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
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Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
State officials are working to incorporate programs and best practices at San Quentin from correctional facilities in countries like Norway, which boasts one of the lowest recidivism rates worldwide.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
The serial killer, who came to be known as the Killer Clown after being convicted of murdering at least 33 teen boys and young men throughout the 1970s, died while at a correctional facility in Illinois on May 10, 1994.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Smith only saw her son’s stardom from newspaper clippings, taping them up in her locker at the correctional facility in Tallahassee.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 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 24 Oct. 2025.
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