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

According to his brother, Rhone’s problems started young, when he was sent to a youth correctional facility. —Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025

The rookie Broncos wide receiver pulled up his Securus app, and scrolled through several contacts at correctional facilities around Florida. —Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Nov. 2025

Produce grown in a Michigan correctional facility sits in a truck. —Nick Lentz, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025

Daniel Troxell was convicted in 2024 along with two other inmates at California State Prison, Sacramento, also known as New Folsom, in a wide-ranging case that detailed the gang’s ability to deal drugs and orchestrate murders from within the state’s correctional facilities. —Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 18 Nov. 2025

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