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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Overdoses at county correctional facilities have declined 61% during that period, from 23 overdoses in 2023 to nine in 2024, the sheriff’s office said. —

Mark Price, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025 She was sentenced to serve just under eight to 10.5 years at a state correctional facility. —

David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024 Friends and family described Mangione, who is being held without bail in a Pennsylvania correctional facility, as a kind and intelligent computer science graduate who enjoyed traveling and reading. —

Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2024 The Atlas team spent 18 hours on back-to-back days at a correctional facility to catch every shift, plying union guards with Crumbl Cookies and Shake Shack. —

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