Department of corrections and Local department

Department of corrections noun - The department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders.

Local department and department of corrections are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Local department" instead a noun phrase "Department of corrections".

Local department noun - A permanent department created to perform the work of a local government.

Department of corrections and local department are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Department of corrections" with "Local department", this phrases are similar.