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correctional institution

NOUN
big house
Synonyms
WEAK
big cage big school brig calaboose can city hotel cooler coop detention facility house of correction house of detention icebox jail joint penitentiary prison slammer tank up the river
NOUN
penitentiary
Synonyms
STRONGEST
lockup prison
STRONG
campus can college cooler inside joint pen reformatory slammer stockade
WEAK
big house penal institution
NOUN
reformatory
Synonyms
STRONG
cooler jail penitentiary prison
WEAK
boot camp correctional facility penal institution training school

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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

On Monday, Lewis Jr. and his family went to a federal correctional institution in Maryland to pick up Lewis Sr. and drive him to their D.C. home.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2023

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

Del Africa walked free from Pennsylvania’s state correctional institution, Dallas, on Saturday morning after a long struggle to convince parole authorities to release him.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2020