WordNet
n. an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public [syn: penal institution]
Usage examples of "penal facility".
Once the emergency was over, following the bloody storming of what was, at the time, the most modern, state-of-the-art penal facility in the whole of the country, Bones Bolt came out a hero.
A double-doored metal gate over a water lane led into the penal facility.
The governor called the next day around three in the afternoon, commuting her sentence to life in the Grassy Valley Penal Facility for Women-all penal and no penis, we used to say back then.
Had she not moved to reinstate his Auroran citizenship, he might very well be living today in a private call in a Terran penal facility, the charges ranging from violation of Earther trade laws and the Positronic Prohibition Acts to murder.
About two o'clock we were sent to the other side of the river-into what my guidebooks insist is an entirely different jurisdiction-to visit a penal facility.