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

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

Two years after the killing, he was named valedictorian of the 157 teenage inmates who received their high school diplomas at a correctional institution.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021

“I was in the hole a total of about 31 months,” said Mr. Guadalupe, who is 41 and was released from a federal correctional institution in Elkton, Ohio, in 2012.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2020

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