WordNet
n. the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders; "for a career in corrections turn to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections" [syn: corrections]
Wikipedia
The Department of Corrections (Corrections) ( Māori: Ara Poutama Aotearoa) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with managing the New Zealand corrections system. Corrections' role and functions were defined and clarified with the passing of the Corrections Act 2004. In early 2006, Corrections officially adopted the Māori name Ara Poutama Aotearoa.
A Department of Corrections is a governmental agency responsible for overseeing the incarceration of persons convicted of crimes within a particular jurisdiction. Traditionally the Department of Corrections is responsible for handling all aspects of State executions. Entities serving that purpose include:
- Department of Corrections (New Zealand)
- Department of Corrections (Thailand)
- District of Columbia Department of Corrections
- State Departments of Corrections in U.S. states:
- Alabama Department of Corrections
- Alaska Department of Corrections
- Arizona Department of Corrections
- Arkansas Department of Correction
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- Colorado Department of Corrections
- Connecticut Department of Correction
- Delaware Department of Correction
- Florida Department of Corrections
- Georgia Department of Corrections
- Hawaii Department of Public Safety
- Idaho Department of Correction
- Illinois Department of Corrections
- Indiana Department of Correction
- Iowa Department of Corrections
- Kansas Department of Corrections
- Kentucky Department of Corrections
- Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections
- Maine Department of Corrections
- Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
- Massachusetts Department of Correction
- Michigan Department of Corrections
- Minnesota Department of Corrections
- Mississippi Department of Corrections
- Missouri Department of Corrections
- Montana Department of Corrections
- Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
- Nevada Department of Corrections
- New Hampshire Department of Corrections
- New Jersey Department of Corrections
- New Mexico Corrections Department
- New York State Department of Correctional Services
- North Carolina Department of Correction
- North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
- Oklahoma Department of Corrections
- Oregon Department of Corrections
- Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
- Rhode Island Department of Corrections
- South Carolina Department of Corrections
- South Dakota Department of Corrections
- Tennessee Department of Correction
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice (formed from the Texas Department of Corrections)
- Utah Department of Corrections
- Vermont Department of Corrections
- Virginia Department of Corrections
- Washington State Department of Corrections
- West Virginia Department of Corrections
- Wisconsin Department of Corrections
- Wyoming Department of Corrections
- U.S. territorial agencies
- Guam Department of Corrections
- Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
The Department of Corrections is an agency of the Thai Ministry of Justice. Its mission is to keep prisoners in custody and rehabilitate them. Its headquarters is in Suanyai Subdistrict, Mueang Nonthaburi District, Nonthaburi Province.
Usage examples of "department of corrections".
Gumb had progressed in tailoring far beyond what the California Department of Corrections had taught him in his youth, but this was a true challenge.
Two men in the uniform of the Tennessee Department of Corrections were on duty.
Did she know that this town, the headquarters for the Texas Department of Corrections, housed over seventy-two hundred inmates?
Instead of his common-law wife's bland macaroni and chicken and potatoes, he had the Department of Corrections's bland macaroni and hamburger and potatoes.
The glossy blue collar buttons, one a D, one a C, for Department of Corrections, came just to the level of her eyes.
I got the job, which I still have, as investigator with the Department of Corrections.
It was only a notch better than his recent residence in the New York State Department of Corrections.