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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However, on March 11, a statewide memo went out directing all correctional facilities to lock down on April 8 during outdoor recreation hours, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. In New York, the eclipse is expected to begin a little after 2 p.m. and end around 4:30 p.m. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024

For example, in Louisiana, some correctional facilities use prison labor to raise livestock, and reporters followed trailers filled with those cows to a market where they were bought by a local livestock dealer. —Angela L. Pagán / The Takeout, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024

Chaplains serve in the U.S. Congress, military, and correctional facilities, and each has rigorous requirements for hiring and service. —Hannah Fingerhut, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024

Now 18 years old, he is currently incarcerated at Estelle State Prison in Huntsville, one of Texas’ highest-security correctional facilities. —Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024

But Bean said the sheriff’s office has also struggled in recent years to hire and retain jail staff members, a problem faced by many correctional facilities across the US. —Christina Maxouris, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024

The county is currently in the process of searching for an outside entity with expertise in the review of correctional facilities to carry out the external audit. —Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024

He was sentenced in May 2019 to the juvenile correctional facility. —Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024

Of the more than two million people held in U.S. prisons and correctional facilities, 200,000 are serving life sentences – and of these people, 40% were incarcerated by age 25. —Ashoka, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024