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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With the new charges, Grimes was transferred from the Miami Federal Detention Center to the Turner Guilford Knight correctional facility. —

Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025 The cast of Sing Sing will perform an off-Broadway rendition of the play Breaking the Mummy’s Code, a time-traveling musical comedy originally staged at Sing Sing correctional facility in 2005 and reenacted in the A24 film. —

Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025 Vo was sentenced in April 2024 to nine months in prison followed by a year of supervised release, but did not report to the correctional facility and remains a federal fugitive. —

Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024 Turner and Elwood offer the audience entry into the heinous world of Nickel, a segregated juvenile correctional facility for boys. —

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