correctional facility

or correction facility

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of correctional facility¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

The body cavity search Christina Cardenas was subjected to at a correctional facility and hospital in Tehachapi amounted to “state sanctioned torture,” attorney Gloria Allred said.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the mementos on the walls: the top of the pool table where he first recorded the podcast, a copy of the Constitution, a rusted sign that once hung on the fence of the long-closed Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino, where he did a stint.

From Los Angeles Times

Bannon, 70, was released from a Danbury, Connecticut, correctional facility on Tuesday, Benjamin O'Cone, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman, told the BBC.

From BBC

“When it was Trump against Biden, I didn’t feel as though Biden was healthy or mentally capable of running a second term, so I would have voted for Trump,” wrote one Black respondent who is incarcerated in Kingman Correctional Facility in Arizona.

From Slate

She is currently organizing a 5K run inside Mabel Bassett Correctional Facility that will benefit Project: SAFE, a local nonprofit for survivors of domestic violence.

From Slate