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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Where is Andrew Jesus Arroyo now? Arroyo, who was arrested by Inglewood police on Saturday, is currently being housed at a Los Angeles County correctional facility without bond, inmate records show.
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Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Her young children — son William, 3, and daughter Invicta, 2 — are being raised nearby by their father, Holmes's partner Billy Evans, 33, but visit their mother at the dormitory-style correctional facility every weekend.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Tarrio, who had been living in the Southwest Miami-Dade area before his arrest in March 2022, was released from a federal correctional facility in Louisiana on Tuesday.
—Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
This proposal would have required the Department of Corrections to keep state correctional facilities at no less than 65 degrees and no greater than 80 degrees.
—Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
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Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Her young children — son William, 3, and daughter Invicta, 2 — are being raised nearby by their father, Holmes's partner Billy Evans, 33, but visit their mother at the dormitory-style correctional facility every weekend.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Tarrio, who had been living in the Southwest Miami-Dade area before his arrest in March 2022, was released from a federal correctional facility in Louisiana on Tuesday.
—Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
This proposal would have required the Department of Corrections to keep state correctional facilities at no less than 65 degrees and no greater than 80 degrees.
—Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 25 Mar. 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 3 May. 2025.
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