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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Rhodes, the former leader of the Proud Boys, told the outlet that he was released from a federal correctional facility in Maryland late Monday after Trump issued pardons to more than 1,000 people who stormed the Capitol four years ago. —

Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025 These bills would prevent correctional facilities from paying for or providing any funds for gender-affirming care. —

Trans Formations Project, Them, 17 Jan. 2025 That program has since expanded across New York state correctional facilities and includes dance, music and writing. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024 Mangione is currently being held at a correctional facility in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania after he was arrested last week at a McDonald’s in Altoona. —

Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for correctional facility

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