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Correctional   /kərˈɛkʃənəl/   Listen
adjective
Correctional  adj.  Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.






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"Correctional" Quotes from Famous Books



... significance in the past week had been the defense of an Earth outpost called Bennington IV. Theoretically, MacMaine was supposed to check over the entire report, find out where the losing side had erred, and feed correctional information into the Computer. But he couldn't resist stopping after he had read the first section: Information Known to Earth Commander at ...
— The Highest Treason • Randall Garrett

... year it was made mandatory on every Judge of Common Pleas to appoint in his county a board of visitors consisting of three men and three women, whose duty it is to make periodical visits to the correctional and charitable institutions of the county and to act as guardians ad litem ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... Amsterdam, Justice is administered in its mildest form; there being the Workhouse close to the Muider Gragt, a place which, I believe, has not its parallel in the whole World. 'Tis partly Correctional and partly Charitable; and when I saw it, there were Seven Hundred and Fifty Persons within the Walls, the yearly expense being about One Hundred Thousand Florins. In the rooms belonging to the Governors and Directresses some exquisite Paintings by Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Jordaens; ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 • George Augustus Sala



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