house of correction



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.
See also: house, of

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Oinone-Greek Mythology
Momokomo-mo-koJapanese
Davorin-Croatian
Chukwuma-Western African, Igbo
Halvor-Norwegian
ArchieAHR-cheeScottish, English