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

She was transferred from a federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a lower-security facility in Bryan, Texas, last year after she was interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. —Graham Kates, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026

Police spoke to Chenevert in July 2025 while he was being held at a correctional facility in Somers. —Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2026

Kingston, who would’ve been a redshirt senior in 2026, was arrested in Provo on Tuesday and then transported to the correctional facility in southern Utah. —Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026

The film centers on inmates at an Indonesian correctional facility whose fragile power structures fracture when a new prisoner arrives with a vengeful supernatural entity that hunts those with the darkest aura. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026

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