"Department Of Corrections" is a little Orwellian, a little Pythonesque. I can imagine a little old lady in a tweed suit going around town and correcting the sp

"Department Of Corrections" is a little Orwellian, a little Pythonesque. I can imagine a little old lady in a tweed suit going around town and correcting the spelling of shop signs and graffiti with a red marker. It's rather more unpleasant in real life though. Why not just call it "Department of Prisons" and be over with it? It's like how in Greece we have the "Ministry for Protection of the Citizen", which is responsible for sending riot police to teargas pensioners and club teachers on the heads when they demonstrate. It used to be the "Public Order Ministry" but everyone made the obvious joke about it ("Public disorder"). So we need police and a mininster to supervise them? Call it "Ministry of Police". Why beat around the bush? For the sake of whom?