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Correction

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection.

Correction, house of. A prison for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders.