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Meaning of house of correction

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

house of correction

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. (Massachusetts) A prison.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/house%20of%20correction

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