lockup house

Noun

 * 1)  A small house where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest, especially where debtors are held before transfer to a debtors' prison.
 * 2) * 1808–10,, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 143:
 * He kept a lock-up house in Great Earle Street, Soho, and, although by profession a tailor, he had fitted it up most elegantly as a tavern.
 * 1)  A lodging house where men are kept and forced to enlist in the army or navy.