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

Prior to being amended, the agency’s 2020 agreement only covered correctional facilities within the Department of Corrections. —Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025

It is estimated the bill would cost the state more than $330 million in the first two years, which doesn't include construction costs for billing additional state correctional facilities that would likely be needed to accommodate an influx of inmates, according to Evers' veto message. —Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025

Nashville Police are investigating the death of an inmate at the Davidson County Sheriff's Office Harding Place correctional facility. —Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 3 July 2025

Deputies and medical personnel provided life-saving measures, but he was pronounced dead at the correctional facility. —Jason Green, Mercury News, 3 June 2025

Rhymes for correctional facility

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