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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.
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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...
- Black jails have no official or legal status, differentiating them from detention centers, the criminal arrest process, or formal sentencing to jail or prison...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- were incarcerated in local jails. Approximately 1.8 million people are incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails. There are over 1 million...
- This is a list of prisons and jails in the U.S. state of Oregon. The incomplete list includes all local, state, federal, and any other detention facilities...
- Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total...
- Homes Not Jails does public actions as well as legislative advocacy and squatting (occupying empty buildings for free). Homes Not Jails groups do "housing...
- the oldest county jails in California. The Men's Central Jail is located at 441 Bauchet St., Los Angeles 90012. The Men's Central Jail houses men who are...