Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A prison.
WordNet
n. a penal institution maintained by the government
Usage examples of "correctional institution".
But the rustic work-camp across the lake had become a brutal fortress of iron and masonry on a naked hilltop, the New York State Maximum Security Adult Correctional Institution at Athena, keeping 5,000 of the state’.
From Taycheedah Correctional Institution, Bembenek continued to protest her innocence, claiming she was framed by the Milwaukee Police Department to stop her from releasing evidence she had of drug use, debauchery, and improper use of government funds by members of the department.
Clines farm was a kind of correctional institution, the code did not apply there.
And last, the town is the site of a Federal Correctional Institution, about which I knew nothing else.
He should never have been sent to anything but a juvenile correctional institution.
Was it because he suspected that he was taking her to no clinic, but to some correctional institution for unwanted burdens, where she would never receive any genuine kindness?
Poor Lorenzo had gotten the goods on his client's cheating husband, a police captain, but the captain took more than his pound of flesh when Lorenzo went off to the Federal Correctional Institution at Sandstone for sixteen months.
One: permanent incarceration in the Caledonian Correctional Institution on Caithness Subcontinent.