How to Use correctional facility in a Sentence

correctional facility

noun
  • At age 9, he was sent to reform school and then spent much of the next two decades of his life in correctional facilities.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • She was booked at the jail on a charge of bringing narcotics into a correctional facility.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 27 June 2024
  • Lundes spent years in correctional facilities, released only to be picked up on the streets again.
    — Ivan Kashinsky, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025
  • The brothers exchange weary looks before a phone rings with a call from the correctional facility where their dad is an inmate.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the programs are volunteer run, while others are funded by the state or correctional facility.
    — Andi Breitowich, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
  • Produce grown in a Michigan correctional facility sits in a truck.
    — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The Jessup correctional facility saw five years with at least one inmate homicide during the same time.
    — Theodore Rose, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2026
  • Yet some of the most harmful practices inside correctional facilities do not neatly appear in policies or records.
    — Justyna Rzewinski, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
  • As a minister Joo helped teens in youth shelters and correctional facilities.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • According to his brother, Rhone’s problems started young, when he was sent to a youth correctional facility.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The 27-year-old man is being held at a correctional facility in Stark County as a fugitive.
    — Michael Guise, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The training school was a juvenile correctional facility that served boys and men between the ages of 12 and 21.
    — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Gatesville, Texas, a prison town a hundred miles north of Austin, has six correctional facilities, five of them housing female inmates.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • In February, the state’s prison guards walked off the job at nearly all of New York’s correctional facilities.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Pollard is locked up in a federal correctional facility in Three Rivers.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Toward the end of his sentence, Landor was transferred to a different correctional facility in the state.
    — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
  • Both Julie and Todd will serve their time at Florida correctional facilities, roughly two and a half hours away from each other.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • Hurst and Grant were housed in the same unit in different cells in the correctional facility and are believed to be together, authorities said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • Heuermann now spends his days at the Suffolk County correctional facility.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The pair are delicate in their approach to the narrative, building a process story and non-exploitative portrait of life in the correctional facility.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The act includes penalty enhancements if the person who is exposed to fentanyl is a first responder or an employee of a correctional facility.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • The series offers a raw look at daily life inside fix of the world’s toughest correctional facilities, looking at the harsh realities faced by both prisoners and guards.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The right to carry — either open or concealed — also does not extend to police stations, courthouses or correctional facilities.
    — Paul Kiefer, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The tomatoes, like all the produce harvested at the farm, go to other Alaska correctional facilities, as well as community food banks.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • He was found dead at a correctional facility in New York while awaiting trial, which a medical examiner ruled a suicide.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 18 July 2025
  • The projects were filmed and recorded at a Topeka correctional facility, whose residents the singer had been corresponding with and inspiring.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Every correctional facility has its own character and culture.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • It’s called the correctional facility.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The building was first a prison, then a juvenile correctional facility, before closing in 2017.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • However, the balance of these facilities could be correctional facilities for the worst offenders of the public trust with respect to fraud and corruption.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026

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