correctional facility

Frequency: 7.09.5 per million words

Refers to a prison or other institution for the confinement of people convicted of serious crimes.

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  • He was sentenced to ten years in a maximum-security correctional facility.
  • The new correctional facility aims to focus on rehabilitation as well as punishment.
  • Security has been tightened at the local correctional facility following an escape attempt.
  • Inmates at the correctional facility are offered various vocational training programs.
  • His client was transferred to a federal correctional facility last week.
  • Many argue that the state's correctional facility is overcrowded and underfunded.
  • The former military base was converted into a modern correctional facility.
  • After the trial, he was transported to the correctional facility on the outskirts of the city.
  • She has worked as a guard at a juvenile correctional facility for over five years.
  • The government plans to build a new correctional facility to address the issue of prison overcrowding.