A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
A concentration camp.
A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor).