correctional facility

Noun

Meaning

correctional facility (plural correctional facilities)

(chiefly US, formal, euphemistic) A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.
Synonyms: correctional institution, corrective facility

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

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Antonyms

liberation exclusion exoneration free world

Examples

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever. Jack Carroll

WINDHOEK - A former farmworker who was serving 34 years for rape and murder of his stepdaughter was found dead in his cell bed at the Windhoek Central Correctional facility on Saturday. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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