house of correction Definitie in het Nederlands

Examples of house of correction

• He drew a happy picture of conditions, from the point of view of dieticians, in hospitals and houses of correction in those days.

• He would have been appalled if he had investigated some of the conditions in hospitals and houses of correction.

• There would be no forced journeys to the already overcrowded houses of correction for people whose family and neighbors would resent such actions.

• The jails, prisons, and houses of correction in which these offenders were confined, however, were not yet subjected to uniformly prescribed and enforced standards.

• Wing's original building included... a turnkey's lodge, cells for debtors, felons and house of correction prisoners, hot and cold baths and an oven to purify infected clothing.

• It proposed that the able-bodied be offered work in a house of correction (the precursor of the workhouse), where the persistent idler was to be punished.

• Here they were both sent to the house of correction and harshly treated, but the only charge against them was preaching, and the magistrates released them.

• 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.