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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Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison and began serving that sentence in May 2019 at a federal correctional facility in New York.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The properties include schools, child care centers, juvenile detention or correctional facilities, libraries, parks, playfields intended for sports, playgrounds, recreation centers and more.
—Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
In California correctional facilities, the system that enables incarcerated people to make and receive phone calls, which had been affected after the technological outage, was fully restored as of 10am Saturday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
Similar initiatives implemented in other states Law enforcement officials in Polk County, Florida, were the first to distribute unsolved case cards in correctional facilities, Massachusetts State Police said in its announcement of unresolved crime cards in 2022.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The properties include schools, child care centers, juvenile detention or correctional facilities, libraries, parks, playfields intended for sports, playgrounds, recreation centers and more.
—Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024
In California correctional facilities, the system that enables incarcerated people to make and receive phone calls, which had been affected after the technological outage, was fully restored as of 10am Saturday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
Similar initiatives implemented in other states Law enforcement officials in Polk County, Florida, were the first to distribute unsolved case cards in correctional facilities, Massachusetts State Police said in its announcement of unresolved crime cards in 2022.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
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“Correctional facility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/correctional%20facility. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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