house of correction
Noun
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Noun
house of correction
- (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.
- (US, Massachusetts, Maryland) A prison.
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