Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Correctional \Cor*rec"tion*al\ (k?r-r?k"sh?n-al), a. [Cf. F. correctionnel.] Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, or intended for correction. 2 (context chiefly US English) Of or pertaining to the imprisonment or rehabilitation of convicted criminals.
WordNet
adj. concerned with or providing correction; "a correctional institution"
Usage examples of "correctional".
Muravieff has performed in achieving a level of quality education for the inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility, and because he feels she has contributed substantially to the lowest rate of recidivism for a corrections facility in the state and one of the lowest rates in the nation, because Victoria Bannister Muravieff has set a standard for community service under the most difficult of conditions, with a selfless disregard for her own situation and a commitment to the rehabilitation of people the rest of us have given up on long ago, the governor has decided to commute her sentence to time served.
Send a check or money order to my friend Omar Sheffield, 968-1911, Box 968, Coxsackie Correctional Facility, Coxsackie, New York 12051.
The Atascadero Minimum Security Correctional Facility was a village of brown brick buildings set in the broad open expanse of what used to be almond groves in the arid ranchland south of Paso Robles.
NEXT DAY, at the Riverhead Correctional Facility, I place my wallet, watch, and keys in a small locker, then step through a series of heavy barred doors, one clanging shut behind me as another slides open in front.
Zon and Stan Berg, the superintendents of the Attica and Clinton Correctional Facilities respectively, as well as their staffs, for always displaying the utmost professionalism and courtesy.
WAS ASSIGNED INMATE NUMBER 95-A6514, the numerical designation he will carry with him for the rest of his natural life, when he arrived at the Attica Correctional Facility in February 1996.
THE SPRING OF 2000 JOEL WAS transferred from the solitary cell at Attica to the protective custody wing at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.
His craft, sweeping the darkness with bursts from the correctional nozzles, fell on course: the trajectory of its actual flight matched the one plotted by the computer point for point.
Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting sentencing for what Ruth van Cleve describes several times as operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.
Quella stessa mattina andai a interrogare il testimone-chiave nel Metropolitan Correctional Center.
The screening and training processes were so stringent that they felt the need for correctional facilities to be negligible.
She'd been in and out of enough correctional facilities over the years that she had become very versatile about her sex life.
Yesterday, Wednesday, July 3rd, 1996, I received a well-written letter from a man who never asked to be born in the first place, and who has been a captive of our nonpareil correctional facilities, first as a juvenile offender and then as an adult offender, for many years.
The list went all the way down the page, names coming out of the forty prisons and correctional facilities in the state of Florida.
In correctional facilities, lids are removed to prevent suicide attempts, though offhand it's hard to imagine the procedure whereby one would hang oneself with a toilet seat, especially with that cunning gap in the middle separating the two halves.