jails 1 of 2

plural of jail

jails

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of jail

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Recent Examples of jails
Noun
Nine people died in San Diego County jails last year, the lowest number in years. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025 While North Carolina is responsible for juvenile jails, Lassiter has argued that Charlotte saw benefits when the sheriff’s office ran one. Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2025 At the meeting, the board listened to public comments against the use of the stun guns in jails and asked questions to representatives from the Sheriff’s Office and the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring. Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025 Starting in the 1880s, the city and county each built a series of increasingly spacious jails—and then proceeded to fill them well above capacity each winter. JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025 The first two are through the Jail Enforcement and Warrant Service Officer models, which restrict local collaboration with ICE to people who’ve already been booked into their jails. Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jails
Noun
  • The State Building Commission will take up the first steps toward overhauling the state's prisons this week.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Projects engage critical questions of ecology, migration, identity, religion, and architecture, and excavate both metaphorical and literal prisons.
    PhotoVogue, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.
    Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2025

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