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What does correctional mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word correctional? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or intended for correction.
  2. (chiefly US) Of or pertaining to the imprisonment or rehabilitation of convicted criminals.
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She greets fellow correctional officers and inmates alike as she walks in and out of classes, workshops and prison pods.
In prison, correctional staff members do not normally negotiate with inmates to get them to cooperate.
The prison's chief correctional supervisor and its warden had written separate memos within four days of the murder.
Dani is remanded to the juvenile correctional facility for conduct unbecoming a minor.
Control participants received no intervention in prison other than usual correctional programming.
That weakens the most effective protection against abuse in the prison and correctional system, which is the ability to seek damages.

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