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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Correctional" Quotes from Famous Books



... no chance for me; nothing could save me. I must go before the correctional police and pay in person for my offence. I might expect to be punished summarily, to be sent to gaol, to be laid by the heels for a month or two, perhaps more. Such a brutal assault as mine ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths

... about that excellent trial by jury? Progress: it is outstripped. The jury is far behind us, and we return to the government judges. "Repression is more rapid and more efficacious," as Maitre Rouher says. And then 'tis so much better. Call the causes: correctional police, sixth chamber; first cause, one Roumage, swindler; second cause, one Lamennais, writer. This has a good effect, and accustoms the citizens to talk without distinction of writers and swindlers. That, certainly, is an advantage; but in a practical point ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo



Words linked to "Correctional" :   punitory, correctional institution, punitive, correction



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