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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Comer issued a subpoena last week to secure Maxwell's testimony through a deposition on Aug. 11 at a federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Aysha Bagchi, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2025
In the frontline Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Ukraine's south, the Justice Ministry said a Russian airstrike on a correctional facility killed at least 17 people and wounded 42 others.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 29 July 2025
He is being held without bail in a Los Angeles correctional facility, according to online records.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 22 July 2025
Over the objection of the racial bias exclaiming defense, the juror, a 41-year-old Black man who works in an administrative role at a state correctional facility, was replaced by an alternate of a 57-year-old White male manufacturing architect from Westchester County.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 June 2025
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Aysha Bagchi, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2025
In the frontline Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Ukraine's south, the Justice Ministry said a Russian airstrike on a correctional facility killed at least 17 people and wounded 42 others.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 29 July 2025
He is being held without bail in a Los Angeles correctional facility, according to online records.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 22 July 2025
Over the objection of the racial bias exclaiming defense, the juror, a 41-year-old Black man who works in an administrative role at a state correctional facility, was replaced by an alternate of a 57-year-old White male manufacturing architect from Westchester County.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 June 2025
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“Correctional facility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/correctional%20facility. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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