correctional facility
(chiefly, US, formal, euphemistic) A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.
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Lose the prison! "Didn't he get sent to the Timbuktu Correctional Facility located somewhere near McMurdo Station on St Helena?"
It was sent to AZ, but the inmate he sent it to was attacked and transferred to FL. The postcard was then sent back to the sender in NY where the postcard sat for over a month in the mail room of the correctional faci…
Wackerly was arrested Friday morning May 1 for embezzlement and money laundering with $50,000 bail set for each charge and is shown to still be in custody at Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada City.
Someone in a Minnesota State Correctional Facility just might make this happen.....🤣🤣
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(chiefly, US, formal, euphemistic) A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.
“Lose the prison! "Didn't he get sent to the Timbuktu Correctional Facility located somewhere near McMurdo Station on St Helena?"”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It was sent to AZ, but the inmate he sent it to was attacked and transferred to FL. The postcard was then sent back to the sender in NY where the postcard sat for over a month in the mail room of the correctional facility before being discovered & turned over to the government.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Wackerly was arrested Friday morning May 1 for embezzlement and money laundering with $50,000 bail set for each charge and is shown to still be in custody at Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada City.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Someone in a Minnesota State Correctional Facility just might make this happen.....🤣🤣”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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