correctional facility

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noun

a prison, especially for long-term confinement.

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Origin of correctional facility

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby correctional facility

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How to use correctional facility in a sentence

This is part of a larger problem with the coronavirus in correctional facilities at all levels nationwide.
U.S. Marshals Service’s lax covid-19 oversight of some inmates reflects a larger problem|Joe Davidson|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
For those reasons, correctional facilities have always been a disease’s dream environment.
On surviving—and leaving—prison during a pandemic|Sarah Scoles|January 21, 2021|Popular-Science
Next will come inmates inside correctional facilities and detention centers, law enforcement and other public safety officers, staff working in public schools, child-care workers and grocery store employees.
D.C., Northern Virginia move to second phase of coronavirus vaccinations, targeting older residents|Antonio Olivo, Lola Fadulu, Ovetta Wiggins|January 11, 2021|Washington Post
More than 2,100 people in custody have contracted the novel coronavirus in the state’s correctional facilities, state data shows, and 27 have died.
Grenades, Bread and Body Bags: How Illinois Has Spent $1.6 Billion in Response to COVID-19 So Far|by Ash Ngu and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune|October 22, 2020|ProPublica

Investigators said “his most likely exposures occurred in the correctional facility” through the multiple brief encounters.
CDC expands definition of who is a ‘close contact’ of an individual with covid-19|Lena H. Sun|October 21, 2020|Washington Post
They put them in key positions within the facility where they can look out for their own.
The Mexican Mafia Is the Daddy of All Street Gangs|Seth Ferranti|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He watched the pit grow bigger every month, despite the numerous reports he wrote about the facility.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After the federal investigation concluded, they authorized him to close the facility.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Opened in Sept. 2002, this “poorly managed” detention facility was the second site opened by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks.
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’|Shane Harris, Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We must have motif first, then technique to adapt and adjust expression and to develop facility in the active agents.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
The object of this practise is to attain facility in manipulating the elements while maintaining the smooth quality of the tone.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
The facility of manufacture and cheapness of those engines caused them to be much used in the mines, and also elsewhere.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
His letter of a few months before reveals the facility with which he moulded the steam-engine to his requirements.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
The fibre can be separated with great facility, though firmly attached at one end to the parent rock.
Asbestos|Robert H. Jones