correctional institution
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The action coincided with the ouster of the new warden from the federal correctional institution in Dublin.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024
San Quentin is California’s oldest correctional institution, housing one maximum-security cell block, a medium-security dorm and a minimum-security firehouse.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023
The occasion was unique in the 90-year history of the correctional institution, located on an island between the Bronx and Queens.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022
“I was in the hole a total of about 31 months,” said Mr. Guadalupe, who is 41 and was released from a federal correctional institution in Elkton, Ohio, in 2012.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2020
She emerged from the correctional institution to be reunited with her son, Michael Davis Africa Jr, to whom she gave birth in a prison cell in September 1978, a month after her arrest.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2018
