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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The receiver’s assistant deputy medical executive helps make sure health care services at correctional facilities are safe, high-quality and constantly improving. Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Barr also noted that Epstein had made a prior suicide attempt, and had been placed on suicide watch in July 2019 — before being taken off after interviewing with psychologists at the correctional facility. Max Rego, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025 The amount spent in 2024 to pay overtime to correctional officers and other prison staff is 28% higher than the year before, an increase that comes even as staff vacancies are down amid the implementation of pay raises in correctional facilities. Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Debuting at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, this psychological thriller set in 1960s Massachusetts centers on the titular Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie), a young secretary ostracized by her peers at a correctional facility for teenage boys. Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 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 2 Oct. 2025.

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