Synonyms:
corrections
Meaning: the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
Synonyms:
corrections, department_of_corrections
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
Still, seventy is a good average, and I have hardly any corrections to make.
Edison had a few minor corrections to make, probably not more than a dozen all told.
This has already led to important corrections in history, and to a great increase in the sum of historical knowledge.
He rose later each day and with ebbing vigour, jotted down notes and corrections upon the proofs of the Minority Report.
He had been at the pains to transcribe the whole book, with blottings, interlineations, and corrections, that it might be shewn to several people as an original.
And more than this, they frequently suggested modifications and corrections which the great man accepted with touching humility and incorporated in a revised copy.