Voorbeelden van house of correction

• Goods have to be made wholly or in part in a foreign prison, jail house, house of correction, or penitentiary; and that has to be proved.

• They called it a house of correction.

• The site was later used as the village house of correction.

• The corporation established a workhouse which combined housing and care of the poor with a house of correction for petty offenders.

• It was then converted into a jail and house of correction.

• His father's plea of insanity being without success, he was sentenced to three months in a house of correction.

• He established a house of correction for minors.

• An individual that practiced such a confidence game would be branded as a two-penny thief, and would soon be consigned to a house of correction.