as in prisons
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
sentenced to three years in jail for his crime
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as in imprisons
to put in or as if in prison
threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked
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Recent Examples of jails
Manuel Rueda, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Israel is also set to release Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, as part of the truce and in return for hostages.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 3 Oct. 2025
That timing hasn’t been lost on the festival’s critics, who say the high-profile American comics are lending legitimacy to a government that represses dissent, jails activists and restricts free speech.
—Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
The federal reimbursement at Miami Correctional Facility will be $291 per day per detainee, according to Indiana Department of Corrections Commissioner Lloyd Arnold, who also said that number is seven times greater than the $42 a day the state pays per prisoner in local jails.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
In a country where disabled people are overrepresented in jails and prisons, psychiatric institutions and police encounters, this isn’t just theoretical.
—Kate Caldwell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
That included branding civil rights advocacy and speech defamatory, a breach of the peace, or hate speech, and hauling activists into courts and jails.
—Time, 29 Sep. 2025
The county is currently defending a long-running class-action case alleging systemic deficiencies in the jails’ health care.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The other models generally allow jails to hold inmates for 72 hours beyond the time state law would require them to be released to give ICE time to pick them up.
—Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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Juan Pappier, the deputy Americas director at Human Rights Watch, says that currently there are 89 foreign nationals imprisoned in Venezuelan jails, from countries that include Colombia, Spain, Argentina, France and the Czech Republic.
—Manuel Rueda, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Israel is also set to release Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, as part of the truce and in return for hostages.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 3 Oct. 2025
That timing hasn’t been lost on the festival’s critics, who say the high-profile American comics are lending legitimacy to a government that represses dissent, jails activists and restricts free speech.
—Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
The federal reimbursement at Miami Correctional Facility will be $291 per day per detainee, according to Indiana Department of Corrections Commissioner Lloyd Arnold, who also said that number is seven times greater than the $42 a day the state pays per prisoner in local jails.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
In a country where disabled people are overrepresented in jails and prisons, psychiatric institutions and police encounters, this isn’t just theoretical.
—Kate Caldwell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
That included branding civil rights advocacy and speech defamatory, a breach of the peace, or hate speech, and hauling activists into courts and jails.
—Time, 29 Sep. 2025
The county is currently defending a long-running class-action case alleging systemic deficiencies in the jails’ health care.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The other models generally allow jails to hold inmates for 72 hours beyond the time state law would require them to be released to give ICE time to pick them up.
—Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jails
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Thompson's crime policies led to more state prisons The tough-on-crime laws Thompson signed forced the construction of a record number of prisons and led to Wisconsin having 21,000 inmates during his tenure — three times as many as neighboring, smaller Minnesota, at the time.—
Molly Beck,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Lawson also suggested ending the practice of full-contact visitation, which results in drugs getting into prisons.—
Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
2 Oct. 2025
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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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“Jails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jails. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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