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Fine arts > Architecture > Civil architecture > Correctional institutions

Preferred term

Correctional institutions

Definition(s)

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(s)

Civil architecture

Narrower concept(s)

Synonym(s)

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

Notation

122095

In other languages

Architecture carcérale

French

URI

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

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