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correctional center

correctional center

1 4.1
A place where people found guilty of crimes are kept and given help to change their behaviour
  • noun
  • /kəˈrɛkʃənl ˈsɛntər/
  • Formal
translation icon : centro de rehabilitación
  • After her arrest, the woman was held at a county correctional center focused on rehabilitating offenders.

Examples

  • A primary purpose of this review was to describe the academic functioning of youth served in detention and correctional centers.

    Academic text (2001)

  • After her arrest, the woman was held at a county correctional center without being allowed bail.

    Blog text (13)

  • So the experience of the college in the correctional centers is fairly broad and constantly getting broader.

    Academic text (1990)

  • I know you love CCCC to they asked him to substitute teach at the Harnett County Correctional Center, AKA the prison.

  • Is it conceivable that a fella with Norman's character would actually take the rap for her? The next morning, I was the first lawyer at the correctional center.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Since the correctional center was, as I have mentioned, the stuff from which nightmares are made, these upper-middle-class malefactors were desperate to buy protection from the horror or at least distraction from it.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The newly built correctional center aims to provide vocational training to inmates during their incarceration.

  • Inmates at the correctional center participate in programs designed to help them reintegrate into society.

Synonyms

prison
vscorrectional center
∞ 1.0

A building where people are kept as punishment or while waiting for trial

focuses more on helping people change rather than punishing or detaining
jail
vscorrectional center
∞ 1.0

A building where people are kept as punishment or while waiting for their trial

is aimed at longer term rehabilitation and convicted populations rather than short stays
penitentiary
vscorrectional center
  • US
73 7.9

A prison for people found guilty of serious crimes

emphasizes rehabilitation and reintegration rather than only long term security
correctional facility
vscorrectional center
  • Formal
10 4.2

A building like a prison where people are kept as punishment and given training

puts stronger emphasis on rehabilitation rather than only confinement
correctional institution
vscorrectional center
  • Formal
2 4.9

A place where people who broke the law are kept as punishment or while they wait for trial

adds a clear aim of helping people rehabilitate, not just punishment
prison farm
vscorrectional center
1 6.8

A place in the countryside where people who broke the law live and work on farms

prioritizes rehabilitation broadly, not always via work or rural programs
corrective facility
vscorrectional center
  • Formal
7.0

A place where people who broke the law stay to learn better behaviour and get help

focuses on rehabilitation but is not necessarily an alternative to standard imprisonment

How Rehabilitative

halfway house
32 4.6
correctional center
  • Formal
1 4.1
jail
∞ 1.0
holding cell
33 4.1

Surface Forms

correctional center singular
correctional centers plural

Morphology

correctional + center

The noun is compositional: 'correctional' (relating to correction/treatment of offenders) + 'center' (a place providing a service) yields a place for correcting or rehabilitating offenders. This follows regular English word-formation and is cross-linguistically paralleled, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.

Etymology

Correctional center comes from the words correctional (from 'correct') and center (a place for help). The picture is of a place where people who broke the law learn skills and try to change, so the name tells you it is a prison that aims to 'rehabilitate' people rather than only punish them.