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
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
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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
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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
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Projects engage critical questions of ecology, migration, identity, religion, and architecture, and excavate both metaphorical and literal prisons.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
25 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 28 Oct. 2025.
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