houses of correction
| In England, early workhouses set up under the poor laws of 1576 and 1597 as a response to rising population and unemployment. A house of correction was set up in each county and major town, ostensibly to house the indigent and punish the work-shy but they soon became little more than prisons for petty criminals. |
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