correctional
[kuh-rek-shuh-nl]
- of or relating to correction, especially to penal correction.
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Origin of correctional
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Examples from the Web for correctional
Contemporary Examples
“Arman was then released to the Ferguson correctional staff for booking,” Wilson writes.
He is currently being held without bail in a segregated area of Wayne County Correctional Facility away from other inmates.
10-Year-Old Murder Defendant Shows Failure of U.S. Juvenile Justice SystemChristopher Moraff
October 18, 2014
Shakur departed Clinton Correctional Facility in a stretch white limo.
Stories about members of the correctional industry who speak up against other members are rare.
But if prisons are better equipped to handle suicide, then how could the Correctional Reception Center have missed Castro?
Historical Examples
Because I have seen you preside over the Correctional Court.
Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red RobeEugne Brieux
I must go before the correctional police and pay in person for my offence.
The Passenger from CalaisArthur Griffiths
It is no longer a question of correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes.
Les MisrablesVictor Hugo
Again approaching another appendix to the correctional laws of Cleveland, I asked for the free public baths.
BrokeEdwin A. Brown
There are many kinds of correctional institutions and a number of schools not of a correctional character.
correctional
- mainly US of or relating to the punishment and rehabilitation of criminalsa correctional facility
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