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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Combs’ lawyers on Monday asked Judge Arun Subramanian to recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that he be placed at FCI Fort Dix, a federal correctional facility in Fort Dix, New Jersey. Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025 In February, the state’s prison guards walked off the job at nearly all of New York’s correctional facilities. Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 The company has also been named as a defendant in six lawsuits from inmates in other federal correctional facilities accusing the Nakamoto Group of negligence and failing to conduct thorough Prison Rape Elimination Act audits as part of its contracts with the Bureau of Prisons. Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025 The receiver’s assistant deputy medical executive helps make sure health care services at correctional facilities are safe, high-quality and constantly improving. Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 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 16 Oct. 2025.

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