correctional institutions
Where convicts serve
Correctional institutions are facilities where people are confined as punishment for crimes—prisons, jails, penitentiaries, and detention centers.
The term is bureaucratic and euphemistic, emphasizing rehabilitation over punishment: He spent fifteen years in various correctional institutions.
The singular form typically appears as an adjective: correctional facility, correctional officer.
- prisonsDetention facilities for criminals
- behind barsIn jail
- doing timeServing a prison sentence
- jailsDetention facilities
- penitentiariesInstitutions housing convicted criminals
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correctional institutionsfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · parole · open society · release · emancipation
correctional institutionsprobation
Supervised trial period
halfway houses · community service · house arrest · electronic monitoring · rehabilitation centers
correctional institutionsprivate residence
self-determination · autonomy · independence · sanctuary · refuge
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