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correctional facility

or correction facility

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of correctional facility1

First recorded in 1970–75

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This is part of a larger problem with the coronavirus in correctional facilities at all levels nationwide.

For those reasons, correctional facilities have always been a disease’s dream environment.

Next will come inmates inside correctional facilities and detention centers, law enforcement and other public safety officers, staff working in public schools, child-care workers and grocery store employees.

More than 2,100 people in custody have contracted the novel coronavirus in the state’s correctional facilities, state data shows, and 27 have died.

Investigators said “his most likely exposures occurred in the correctional facility” through the multiple brief encounters.

He is currently being held without bail in a segregated area of Wayne County Correctional Facility away from other inmates.

Shakur departed Clinton Correctional Facility in a stretch white limo.

Polk Correctional Facility in Sanford, Florida—the same jail in which he was held during some of the lead-up to his July trial.

He will appear in court via live video link from John Polk Correctional Facility on Tuesday afternoon.

Shellie Zimmerman was taken Tuesday to the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Sanford, where her husband is being held.

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