Penitentiary home

A painting by William Hoggart from the Career of a Prostitute series. Prostitute Mall in Bridewell Prison. She beats off hemp for hangman’s loops, while the jailer threatens her and makes her work.

Correctional houses are houses for the maintenance of beggars and criminals in conditions of heavy physical work.

Mass begging , which did not succumb to the most brutal self-injurious punishments, led to the establishment of the first correctional houses in Europe . A similar house - House of correction was built in London in 1550 ; then in 1588 in Amsterdam and a special house for the placement of poor children in Nuremberg ; in 1613 - in Lübeck , in 1615 - in Hamburg and in 1682 in Munich .

There were, however, not only tramps , beggars , various kinds of criminals , but also workers and servants for laziness and daring behavior. As a result, the correctional houses soon overflowed and turned into centers of debauchery and contagious diseases (prison typhus ). ^[one]