correctional institution
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The action coincided with the ouster of the new warden from the federal correctional institution in Dublin.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024
San Quentin is California’s oldest correctional institution, housing one maximum-security cell block, a medium-security dorm and a minimum-security firehouse.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023
The occasion was unique in the 90-year history of the correctional institution, located on an island between the Bronx and Queens.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022
Built at a cost of $400 million, the state correctional institution opened over the summer to replace the aging SCI Graterford, built in 1929.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2018
Shkreli, 35, was transferred on Tuesday from a bleak federal facility in New York to the federal correctional institution at Fort Dix, about 40 miles north-east of Philadelphia.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2018