correctional institution

1. 1.

   a penal institution maintained by the government

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Questions about correctional institution

What does correctional institution mean?

correctional institution means "a penal institution maintained by the government".

Is correctional institution a common word?

correctional institution is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.