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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The incident occurred Monday night at Lincoln Hills School in Irma, a juvenile correctional facility operated by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC).
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Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 June 2024
The state's new requirements won’t protect all indoor workers there, however: Officers at state and local correctional facilities, as well as other prison employees, are excluded for the time being.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 21 June 2024
A couple weeks later, Leon Ruffin, escaped from a New Orleans correctional facility.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
Last year, a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service, Patrick Bauer, was killed at a gun range at a correctional facility in Phoenix after he was shot.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
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Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 June 2024
The state's new requirements won’t protect all indoor workers there, however: Officers at state and local correctional facilities, as well as other prison employees, are excluded for the time being.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 21 June 2024
A couple weeks later, Leon Ruffin, escaped from a New Orleans correctional facility.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
Last year, a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service, Patrick Bauer, was killed at a gun range at a correctional facility in Phoenix after he was shot.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
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“Correctional facility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/correctional%20facility. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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