House Of Correction Definition

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noun
A place of short-term confinement for persons convicted of minor offenses and regarded as capable of being reformed.
Webster's New World
An institution dedicated to the management and rehabilitation of persons perceived to be at risk of becoming criminals.
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A residential penitentiary facility, an institution where criminals or wayward people (notably youth) are sent to have their ways 'corrected' trough a penal regime officially intended to reeducate them.

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House Of Correction Sentence Examples

  • There are a state prison at Windsor (1808), a house of correction at Rutland (1878), an industrial school at Vergennes (1866), and hospitals for the insane at Brattleboro (1836) and Waterbury (1891).

  • Other buildings are the orphanage, the hospital, a house of correction for women and a music hall.

  • It is a well-built city, the principal public buildings being the government house, the church, of St Mary, the gymnasium and the house of correction.

  • He is himself one of the board of education, of the board of public works, and of the board for the management of the house of correction.

  • Each county has an almshouse and house of correction.

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