Department of Corrections
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4.1
- noun
- /dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv kəˈrɛkʃənz/
- Formal
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Departamento de Correcciones
- By the following month, the Department of Corrections launched the city's first methadone treatment program.
- the State Department of Corrections
- Department of Corrections inmates
That he was surrendering to Fulton County Department of Corrections.
- That he was surrendering to Fulton County Department of Corrections.
- So now you've got this convicted rapist of little girls housed with the women in the Wisconsin Department of Corrections inside the prison I just mentioned.
- But increasingly, departments of Corrections are going to secrecy as a way to hide exactly what they're doing in the lethal injection process.
- And when Kenneth Lay got arrested, I think I was in Department of Corrections.
Examples
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Then, on your 19th birthday, you'll be turned over to the Department of Corrections to serve a term of no less than 25 years at the Frontera Institute for Women.
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According to the Department of Corrections, people are incarcerated to protect society.
Academic text (1990) -
I understand it's going to be housing for women released from the Department of Corrections.
Blog text (25) -
But not quite three years later, in 1994, the state Department of Corrections planned to release him for health reasons.
Academic text (1998) -
On the basis of this report, I sentence you to three years - - in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
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A database maintained by the state's Department of Corrections was used to identify members of the comparison group.
Academic text (2009) -
You are hereby sentenced to the Arkansas Department of Corrections to a term of life without the possibility of parole.
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Typically, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) parole board selects medium-to-high risk prisoners for the MPRI Program (MDOC, 2012).
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The court will sentence her to 27 years in the Department of Corrections.
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Defendant Daniel is remanded to be delivered to the Department of Corrections to serve his sentence.
Synonyms
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A government system that punishes, supervises, and helps people who commit crimes
Surface Forms
Morphology
department + of + corrections
The meaning is transparently compositional: 'department' (an organizational unit) + 'of' (linking) + 'corrections' (the branch handling offender rehabilitation/prisons) directly yields a government unit responsible for corrections. The 'department of X' pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
The name Department of Corrections uses the word corrections like a teacher correcting mistakes, giving the picture of fixing a person's behavior instead of only punishing them. So, the phrase refers to the government office that runs 'prisons' and tries to 'help' people change and return to normal life.