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house of correction
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house of correction
n. pl. houses of correction
An institution for the confinement of persons convicted of minor criminal offenses.
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Noun1.house of correction - (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences
gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer, clink - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
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Robert Shoemaker has focussed upon the records from houses of correction in his study of the reformation of manners movement, arguing that reforming Justices preferred commitments to houses of correction over recognizances because the latter "were not an effective procedure for punishing or preventing vice.
Policing male heterosexuality: the reformation of manners societies' ... by Hurl-Eamon, Jennine / Journal of Social History
The Dutch were influenced by the English houses of correction, and Spierenburg has done a careful job of reconstructing the events that led Amsterdam, in the last decade of the sixteenth century, to create a house of discipline.
The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and Their Inmates in ... by McGowen, Randall / Journal of Social History
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