jail
Where inmates live
A jail is a place where people are confined, typically those awaiting trial or serving short sentences.
In American usage, jails are local facilities run by counties or cities, distinct from prisons, which hold those serving longer terms.
The verb means to put someone in jail: They jailed him for contempt of court.
Figuratively, anything confining can feel like a jail: This office is a jail.
Basic unit of life
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- inmateConfined facility resident
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
prison · penitentiary · lockup · cellblock · solitary · brig · dungeon · stockade
Locking wrist restraints
- bookingAdvance arrangement secured
- mugshotPolice identification photograph
- bailCourt-set release payment
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
holding cell · fingerprints · custody · suspect · warrant · detained · processed · bond
Firmly held belief
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- verdictOfficial court decision
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- judgeOne who decides
prosecution · defense · plea · guilty · innocent · felony · misdemeanor · attorney
Capacity exceeded dangerously
- recidivismHabitual return to crime
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- reentryComing back in
- programsCoded instructions for computers
education · vocational · abolition · mass incarceration · private prisons · sentencing · parole board · reintegration
cell
Basic unit of life
warden · prison · penitentiary · lockup · cellblock · solitary · brig · dungeon · stockade · reformatory
handcuffs
Locking wrist restraints
- bookingAdvance arrangement secured
- mugshotPolice identification photograph
- bailCourt-set release payment
arraignment · holding cell · fingerprints · custody · suspect · warrant · detained · processed · bond · overnight
conviction
Firmly held belief
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- verdictOfficial court decision
- trialJudicial examination of claims
judge · prosecution · defense · plea · guilty · innocent · felony · misdemeanor · attorney · courtroom
overcrowding
Capacity exceeded dangerously
- recidivismHabitual return to crime
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- reentryComing back in
programs · education · vocational · abolition · mass incarceration · private prisons · sentencing · parole board · reintegration · advocacy
- criminal justicearrest, court, prison, crime, guilty
- justicecourtroom, trials, retributive justice, courts, gavel
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- prisoncell block, inmate, prison, prisoner, prison cells
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
jailfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · free · release · liberation · liberate
jailreward
Payment for service
honor · commendation · medal · prize · vindication
- in jailDetained in custody
- jail cellLocked prisoner compartment
- jail timePeriod of imprisonment
- get out of jail free
- thrown in jail
- go to jail
jailed, jails, jailer, jailing, jailbird, jailhouse, jailbreak, jailbait, jaillike