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House of correction   /haʊs əv kərˈɛkʃən/   Listen
House of correction

noun
1.
(formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences.





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... Enquiry considers, and with much learning and detail, is the condition of the poor. Here Fielding's views on our modern problem of the unemployed may be read. And here occurs a splendid denunciation of the 'House of Correction' or Bridewell of the period, a prison for idle and disorderly persons where "they are neither to be corrected nor employed: and where with the conversation of many as bad and sometimes worse than themselves they are sure to be improved in the Knowledge and ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden
... subject a dangerous one, inasmuch as it conducted him to the Bastille, a very excellent reformatory for audacious scribes. Laurence Anglivielle de la Beaumelle, born in 1727, had previously visited that same house of correction on account of his political views expressed in Mes Pensees, published at Copenhagen in 1751. In his Memoires he attributed to the mistress-queen of Louis XIV. sayings which she never uttered, and his style lacks the dignity and decency of true ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield
... who permitted themselves to be thrown by the Hercules of the booths—or fishing at noontime from rafts; all of these occupations he followed to some extent, and, some months after he came out of the house of correction, he was arrested again for a petty theft—a pair of old shoes prigged from a shop-window. Result: a year in the prison of Sainte Pelagie, where he served as valet ...
— Ten Tales • Francois Coppee
... (Queen Anne) Hatton describes Bridewell "as a house of correction for idle, vagrant, loose, and disorderly persons, and 'night walkers,' who are there set to hard labour, but receive clothes and diet." It was also a hospital for indigent persons. Twenty art-masters (decayed ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... or you go back to Sutherland and I'll have you locked up in the jail till you can be sent to the House of Correction. You can take ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips


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