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English Thesaurus

1. the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole (noun.act)

hypernym	:	social control,
definition	:	control exerted (actively or passively) by group action (noun.act)

2. the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders (noun.group)

hypernym	:	department of local government, local department,
definition	:	a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government (noun.group)