corrections
kuh rek shuhnz
- n the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders
for a career in corrections turn to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections - n the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
- n the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- n a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- n something substituted for an error
- n a rebuke for making a mistake
- n a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- n the act of punishing
- n treatment of a specific defect
- The state's overcrowded corrections system is in crisis.
- But few legal, medical and corrections experts endorse the castration alternative.
- The acquittal of seven guards and a nurse charged in the death of a teenage boot-camp inmate has renewed calls for reform of the state's troubled corrections system.