How to Use correctional facility in a Sentence

correctional facility

noun
  • Both Julie and Todd will serve their time at Florida correctional facilities, roughly two and a half hours away from each other.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • Hurst and Grant were housed in the same unit in different cells in the correctional facility and are believed to be together, authorities said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • Some of the programs are volunteer run, while others are funded by the state or correctional facility.
    Andi Breitowich, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
  • 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
  • Like many correctional facilities, the D.C. jail has grappled with how to stop prisoners from getting drugs.
    Nate Jones, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • An inmate in the Mobile Metro Jail was found unresponsive in his cell Tuesday and pronounced dead a short time later -- marking the fourth inmate death at the correctional facility in the past 50 days.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The pair are delicate in their approach to the narrative, building a process story and non-exploitative portrait of life in the correctional facility.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Greenman remained at the correctional facility Friday and her next court date was Aug. 17, according to jail records.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • All 20 were identified as leaders of the standoff and have been relocated to correctional facilities in other parts of the state, Heroux said.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The tomatoes, like all the produce harvested at the farm, go to other Alaska correctional facilities, as well as community food banks.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • He was sentenced in May 2019 to the juvenile correctional facility.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The act includes penalty enhancements if the person who is exposed to fentanyl is a first responder or an employee of a correctional facility.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • 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
  • For states that want to participate in the program, the federal government is calling for correctional facilities to offer methadone and buprenorphine.
    Noah Weiland, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Dorms and living facilities controlled by the state board of higher education would be affected, as well as correctional facilities for youths and adults.
    Trisha Ahmed, ajc, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Sam is being held without bail at an L.A. correctional facility.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • An inmate who escaped from a New Hampshire correctional facility was shot and killed by a police officer after threatening two people with a knife, officials said.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 July 2023
  • 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
  • The event is designed to take place within a correctional facility and aimed at father-daughter bonding without physical barriers between them.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That’s why a small but growing number of correctional facilities are offering yoga classes.
    Andi Breitowich, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
  • The new rules also apply to correctional facilities as well as homeless, emergency and warming and cooling centers, said the California Department of Public Health.
    Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • There is not a central database that accurately tracks correctional facility escapes in the US, experts said, and these escapes remain exceedingly rare.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The suspect was taken into custody and transported to a county correctional facility.
    C Mandler, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Stewart would later be convicted of 4 counts of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators, resulting in a 5 month stint in a West Virginia correctional facility.
    Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Dorms and living facilities controlled by North Dakota's board of higher education are affected, as well as correctional facilities for youths and adults.
    CBS News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • As with adult correctional facilities, probation officers are not supposed to carry firearms inside the juvenile halls.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • While contraband and violence are not unheard of in Texas correctional facilities, statewide lockdowns are highly unusual.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Mental health is very important in a correctional facility.
    Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 5 June 2023
  • The bill’s impact is apparent, with over 3,000 cases filed against medical providers, correctional facilities, politicians, and figures across music and entertainment.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023

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