house of correction

Senso (Inglese)

  1. 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.
  2. A prison.

Traduzioni

Besserungsanstalt

strafgevangenis

bagno

huis van correctie

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