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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Recovery homes are specialized residential facilities for people who have recently been released from correctional facilities or substance abuse treatment centers that are designed to give them a place to stay while still receiving support services. Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Oct. 2025 Combs’ lawyers on Monday asked Judge Arun Subramanian to recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that he be placed at FCI Fort Dix, a federal correctional facility in Fort Dix, New Jersey. Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025 After the meeting, Maxwell was transferred from a correctional facility in Florida to a lower-security prison camp in Texas. Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 Oct. 2025 In February, the state’s prison guards walked off the job at nearly all of New York’s correctional facilities. Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 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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