correctional facility

Definition/Scope: A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Prisons are conventionally institutions, which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime. In popular parlance of many countries, the term jail is considered synonymous with prison. A military prison is a prison operated by the military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, those whose freedom is deemed a national security risk by military or civilian authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime. Thus military prisons are of two types: penal, for punishing and attempting to reform criminals within the military, and confinement-oriented, where captured enemies are confined for military reasons until hostilities cease. Most militaries have some sort of military police unit operating at the divisional level or below to perform many of the same functions as civilian police, from traffic-control to the arrest of violent offenders and the supervision of detainees and prisoners-of-war. The US military equivalent to the civilian jail, in the sense of "holding area" or "place of brief incarceration for petty crimes" is known colloquially as the guardhouse or stockade by the army and air forces, and the brig by naval and marine forces.

Used For:

Mission command WFF

Broader Terms:

Army Corrections System
Brigade Detainee Internment Facilities
Brigade Internment Facilities
Initial Point Of Capture
Regional Holding Facility, USMC

Narrower Terms:

31E
correctional employees
correctional personnel

Related Terms:

Camp Humphreys
Camp Lejeune
Camp Pendleton
correctional institutions
correctional psychology
Fort Knox
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Lewis
Fort Sill
Marine Corps Base Quantico
Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar
Quantico Virginia
sally port