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.

Examples of correctional facility in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Owen Hanson’s body was in FCI Englewood, a low-security federal correctional facility in Colorado, but his mind was elsewhere. —Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026

The brothers exchange weary looks before a phone rings with a call from the correctional facility where their dad is an inmate. —Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026

In addition to citing the laws about legislators having access to correctional facilities, the lawsuit also raised constitutional separation-of-powers arguments. —Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026

Alien 3, directed by David Fincher, sees Ripley crash land into a correctional facility. —Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for correctional facility

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