penal facility

1. 1.

   an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public

   Synonymspenal institution

   Broaderinstitution

   Narrowerbrigcampcorrectional institutionpenal colony

   Part ofinfrastructure

Questions about penal facility

What does penal facility mean?

penal facility means "an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public".

What is another word for penal facility?

Close synonyms include penal institution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is penal facility a common word?

penal facility 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.