correctional facility

Or correction facility

noun

1. a prison, especially for long-term confinement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of correctional facility¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Englewood Correctional Facility, where Penchukov is being held, would not let us take any recording equipment inside the prison, so a producer and I make notes during the interview as we are watched over by a guard nearby.

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Toward the end of his sentence, Landor was transferred to a different correctional facility.

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Resilience is a theme that runs Bentley and Kwedar’s work, so they’re experts at creating crucibles that test their characters’ wills, like a jockey eking more miles from his broken body or inmates seeking peace and transcendence in a notorious correctional facility.

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Robert Brooks, 43, died overnight December 9-10, hours after being beaten while in handcuffs at the Marcy Correctional Facility, a prison in upstate New York.

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Pulane Lucas, mom of ex-NFL player Stanley Wilson Jr., will participate in the Mother’s Day vigil outside the Twin Towers Correctional Facility with other affected parents.

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