WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

corrections
    n 1: 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" [syn: corrections,
         department of corrections]
    2: the social control of offenders through a system of
       imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole