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correctional facility

Or correction facility

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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Barreras is currently being held at Twin Towers Correctional Facility on $2 million bail.

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Robert Lee Denis, 34, recently returned from his trip to Bronx Supreme Court back to Eastern Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located in Napanoch, New York.

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After Downstate Correctional Facility closed in 2022, the massive job of holding and transporting hundreds of incarcerated people to prisons across the state was crammed into a single roach-and-rat-infested cell block in Green Haven, a maximum-security prison located in a rural town called Stormville.

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“There is little to no oversight, and it’s extremely rare for correction officers or facilities to be held accountable. I will continue to fight for increased transparency, accountability, and oversight, and today I am calling on Green Haven Correctional Facility to immediately address the inhumane conditions it is forcing incarcerated people to live in.”

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With the murder of Robert Brooks in Marcy Correctional Facility, and the recent 22-day illegal prison guard strike, living conditions of inmates have come under intense scrutiny.

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