house of correction

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

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

I was taken, tried, and condemned to six months' imprisonment in a house of correction.

In that city, Atkinson built the house of correction and prison.

A house of correction was built for our enemies: the Labyrinth.

It remained the town's House of Correction until around 1748.

The author was not sent to the galleys, nor the players to the house of correction.

It sounded like the rules for the sternest house of correction.

Wakefield Prison was originally built as a house of correction in 1594.

Capitalism needed the house of correction, and somehow it magically came into being as a result.

In 1607 a House of Correction was set up in each county.

There is a tradition among inmates serving long stretches in the nation's houses of correction.

The justices had responsibility for maintaining county gaols and houses of correction.

Hell is God's house of correction; and, remember, God doth all things like himself.

From five to fifteen, he threatened me, hourly, with the House of Correction.

He established a house of correction for minors.

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

"Security in the House of Correction is extremely tight.

Gave him a stiff sentence in a House of Correction to teach him better ways.

This was an enlightened approach and houses of correction were established in other cities to re-integrate these individuals back into society.

The idle poor and vagrants were to be sent to a House of Correction or even prison.

"Knock them all out, and then ship them off to your House of Correction to be fixed?"

This sportive fancy he expiated in the House of Correction.

The House of Corrections was demolished by 1928.

He was well known at the Cook County jail and Bridewell, a house of corrections.