house of correction

1. 1.

   (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences

   Broaderjail

Questions about house of correction

What does house of correction mean?

house of correction means "(formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences".

Is house of correction a common word?

house of correction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.