correctional

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The Safer Skies Act expanded that mandate to roughly 18,000 law-enforcement agencies and 6,000 correctional facilities across the country.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

Feasibility studies have already been conducted by federal agencies to assess whether a modern correctional facility could be established on the site, though no final decision has been made.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Luna proposed the county builda correctional care center, modeled after the state hospital system, that would secure inmates but also be built specifically to provide medical services to the most “medically fragile” in the system.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

The Brentwood, Tenn., company also landed contracts with ICE at a 1,033-bed reception center in Kansas and a 2,160-bed correctional facility in Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

“This is not a system that needs tinkering around the edges, this is a system that is broken almost everywhere you look,” a panel of state-approved correctional experts concluded in 2006.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater