How to Use correctional facility in a Sentence
correctional facility
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She was booked at the jail on a charge of bringing narcotics into a correctional facility.
— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 27 June 2024 -
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 -
The projects were filmed and recorded at a Topeka correctional facility, whose residents the singer had been corresponding with and inspiring.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024 -
The announcement that correctional facilities will be carved out from the rule was made by the agency’s standards board Thursday and came amid considerable pressure from labor groups to get protections in place for their members.
— Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024 -
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 -
New Mexico Those incarcerated for a felony offense in New Mexico cannot vote while in jail, prison, or a correctional facility but their right to vote is restored upon their release.
— Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024 -
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 -
When the act took effect Oct. 1, a deluge of lawsuits flooded Maryland court dockets, targeting the likes of churches, schools and correctional facilities for abuse allegedly committed by priests, teachers and guards.
— Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2024 -
Sam is being held without bail at an L.A. correctional facility.
— Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024 -
Peter Navarro, who served as a top trade adviser to Trump, is serving a four-month prison sentence at a correctional facility in Miami after he was convicted on two counts of criminal contempt last year.
— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 June 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 -
A couple weeks later, Leon Ruffin, escaped from a New Orleans correctional facility.
— Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024 -
That’s why a small but growing number of correctional facilities are offering yoga classes.
— Andi Breitowich, Men's Health, 1 May 2023 -
Pine Lodge used to serve as a women’s correctional facility before being largely abandoned and left to deteriorate.
— Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
In a juvenile correctional facility, teens get clinical counseling, skills classes, education and, through their participation, the chance to earn their return to the community.
— Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
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