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correctional

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Of, pertaining to, or intended for correction.

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The average guard's salary rose from $14,400 in 1980 to $54,000 in 2002, almost twice the national average for a prison officer.One federal investigation reported last year that "rather than CDC staff correcting prisoners, some correctional officers acquire a prisoner's mentality: they form gangs, align with gangs, and spread the code of silence".

Worse, California's "correctional facilities" singularly fail to correct: three in four prisoners will be convicted of another crime within three years and three out of five will be back in prison.

The majority of women convicted in Moscow courts are taken to correctional colonies located between 200km and 500km from the capital.

Russia's "correctional colonies" are unlike any prisons in the west.

"He did a lot of threatening, hollering in my face, telling me I was gonna lose my kids, I wasn't going to never get out of prison," Johnson remembered of Zuley, 20 years later, from Logan correctional center in Lincoln, Illinois.

Speaking from Stateville correctional center, Griggs remembered Zuley and Abreu interrogating him.

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The Enhanced Supervision Housing (ESH) – a 50-bed unit in the Otis Bantum Correctional Center – will see violent inmates granted greater access to prison programmes and be given a periodic review of their placement involving consultations with officials from the department of mental health and hygiene.

On Saturday night two volunteers, who identified themselves as belonging to the National Lawyers Guild, were seen by the Guardian being arrested alongside four street medics outside the Baltimore City Correctional Center.

The sailors were being held at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Halifax and were due to return to court Monday.

IT WAS designed to hold 541 inmates, but Columbia Correctional Institute, a brick prison in Portage, Wisconsin, usually houses about 830.

His years on Appropriations were spent not just juggling favours and nitpicking on procedure, but also proudly channelling money to the hills and hollows: making gravel tracks into Robert C. Byrd Freeways, turning fetid lock-ups into Robert C. Byrd Correctional Institutions, setting up the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to look at the stars.

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