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
Aoi	ah-o-ee	Japanese
Isabela	ee-sah-BEL-ah (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
TÚ	-	Vietnamese
Manuela	mah-noo-E-lah (German), mah-NWE-lah (Italian)	Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, German, Italian
Alexandru	-	Romanian
Christen (1)	-	Danish, Norwegian