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

However, the balance of these facilities could be correctional facilities for the worst offenders of the public trust with respect to fraud and corruption. —Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026

Remembering David Allan Coe A native of Akron, Ohio, Coe's childhood was plagued by time in and out of youth correctional facilities, according to his website. —Melina Khan, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026

At age 9, he was sent to reform school and then spent much of the next two decades of his life in correctional facilities. —Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026

In the past year there have been 12 drone incursions at New York State prisons, including in March when a drone dropped contraband into the yard of a correctional facility. —Pat Ryan, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026

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