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Fine arts > Architecture > Civil architecture > Correctional institutions

Preferred term

Correctional institutions  

Definition

  • Use to denote any buildings or groups of buildings in which people accused or convicted of breaking the law may be confined and which may or may not attempt some form of reform or rehabilitative correction of offenders. [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Correctional facilities
  • Facilities, correctional
  • Houses of correction
  • Institutions, correctional
  • Institutions, penal
  • Penal institutions

Notation

  • 122095

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-SSK769GV-1

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