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Definitions of jails in various dictionaries:
noun - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb - lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
adj - to put in jail (a place of confinement) [v -ED, -ING, -S] : JAILABLE
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Plural form of jail. |
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jail. |
A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime. |
Put (someone) in jail. |
a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime. |
put (someone) in jail. |
Jails description |
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A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English; in current use (alongside jail) in Australian English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English) or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until they are brought to trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. Besides their use for punishing crimes, jails and prisons are frequently used by authoritarian regimes against perceived opponents. * In American English, prison and jail are often treated as having separate definitions. The term prison or penitentiary tends to describe institutions that incarcerate people for longer periods of time, such as many years, and are operated by the state or federal gov |