workhouse

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
2. 2
   A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
3. 3
   A place of manufacture; a factory.

Verb

1. 1
   To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor).