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
Fannar	-	Icelandic
Harrison	HAR-i-sən, HER-i-sən	English
Ellie	['eli]
Adrijan	-	Croatian, Macedonian
Ujarak	-	Native American, Inuit
Moss	-	English (Archaic), Jewish