house of correction

Euph. a prison. He was sentenced to five years in the county's house of correction. The Jones House of Correction was built in the 1950s, when violent crime was much less common here.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Armor	['a:mə]
Kazuko	kah-zoo-ko	Japanese
Vasu	-	Hinduism, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi
Alexandr	-	Czech
Sefton	SEF-tən	English (Rare)
Ernestine	er-nes-TEE-nə (German), UR-nəs-teen (English)	French, German, English