Definitions from Wiktionary (house of correction)

▸ noun:  (UK, historical) A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.
▸ noun:  (US, Massachusetts, Maryland) A prison.
▸ Also see house_of_correction


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