CORRECTION HOUSE, a place of confinement, where vagrants and persons guilty of offences of an inferior degree suffer punishment by being obliged to labour for a certain period of time, as for months or years, according to the nature of the offence committed. The benefits arising to society, and the reformation of offenders, from this mode of punishment, have been variously estimated by different writers, according to the views which they have taken of the effects and consequences which are supposed to follow the confinement and restraint to which the criminal is subjected. See PUNISHMENTS.