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Definition of Jails

Jail
Jail Jail, n. [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage, for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage.] A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.] This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott. Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.
Jail
Jail Jail, v. t. To imprison. [R.] --T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. --Tennyson.
jail
Gaol Gaol, n. [See Jail.] A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.] Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict. [Eng.] Gaol delivery. (Law) See Jail delivery, under Jail.

Meaning of Jails from wikipedia

- incarcerated, while a jail is a place where individuals in pretrial custody or given short sentences are sent. In the United States, jails are often run by...
- better from Sub jail to Central Jail. The other types of jail establishments are Women Jails, Borstal Schools, Open Jails and Special Jails. The following...
- district jails, 99 sub-jails, a women's jail and an open jail. The state has two district jails at Itanagar and at Tezu respectively. Guwahati Central Jail, Guwahati...
- Black jails have no official or legal status, differentiating them from detention centers, the criminal arrest process, or formal sentencing to jail or prison...
- June 2007). Retrieved 31 May 2012. 25 crime lords, 160 gangs: Why Delhi jails are a security nightmare.Hindustan times (December 2023). Relief to Tihar...
- in the Philippines. As of 2021, there are seven national prisons and 433 jails in the country. For the sake of this article this includes all types of...
- Homes Not Jails does public actions as well as legislative advocacy and squatting (occupying empty buildings for free). Homes Not Jails groups do "housing...
- Bangladesh Jail manages 13 central jails and 55 district jails. The Department of Prison operates seven divisional prison and 68 prisons. Bangladesh Jail is under...
- 2021" (PDF). "Jails in Haryana | Haryana Prisons, Government of Haryana, India". haryanaprisons.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-06-27. "Rewari Jail data" (PDF)....
- A rotary jail was an architectural design for some prisons in the Midwestern United States during the late 19th century. Cells in the jails were wedges...