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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Recent Examples on the Web

Watch Ferrari on Hulu Eileen 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

Heuermann now spends his days at the Suffolk County correctional facility. —Michelle Watson, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025

Police arrested Chris Daniel Aguilar, 16, shortly after the incident and detained him at a juvenile correctional facility. —Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 26 Aug. 2025

The new correctional facility — which DOC calls the Northwest Indiana Correctional Facility — is still under construction on the site of the current Westville correctional campus. —Casey Smith, IndyStar, 22 Aug. 2025

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