CORRECTION, House of, a place where vagrants and persons guilty of minor offences are confined, and punished by being obliged to labour for a certain period, according to the nature of the offence. 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 of the confinement and restraint to which the criminal is subjected. See PUNISHMENTS.