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Definition of house of corrections:
(n) :
(US, Massachusetts, Maryland) A prison.
(n) :
(UK, historical) A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.
Definition of house of corrections:
(n) :
(US, Massachusetts, Maryland) A prison.
(n) :
(UK, historical) A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.
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