jailer
Keeper of inmates
A jailer is a person who runs or works in a jail, responsible for guarding and supervising prisoners.
The term applies to anyone from a sheriff overseeing a county lockup to guards in larger facilities.
Also spelled gaoler in British English, though that spelling is old-fashioned.
The jailer brought the prisoner his evening meal.
Supervisory custodian of place
- guardWatchful defensive attention
- turnkeyReady for immediate use
- keeperOne who guards
- corrections officerInmate supervisor in prison
superintendent · overseer · disciplinarian · enforcer · uniformed · badge · nightstick · keyring
Confinement for offenders
- cellBasic unit of life
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- dungeonSubterranean prison chamber
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
detention · captivity · imprisonment · shackles · chains · solitary · cage · enclosure
Threaded metal fastener
hoosegow · calaboose · brig · pokey · big house · lockup · inside · doing time
warden
Supervisory custodian of place
corrections officer · superintendent · overseer · disciplinarian · enforcer · uniformed · badge · nightstick · keyring · patrol
prison
Confinement for offenders
incarceration · detention · captivity · imprisonment · shackles · chains · solitary · cage · enclosure · restraint
screw
Threaded metal fastener
slammer · hoosegow · calaboose · brig · pokey · big house · lockup · inside · doing time · behind bars
dungeon
Subterranean prison chamber
oubliette · stockade · pillory · manacles · torchlit · medieval · executioner · condemned · gallows · chains
prisoner
Confined criminal detainee
felon · charge · holding · supervision · surveillance · watch · control · handover · transfer · booking
- Indian occupationsayah, coolie, sepoy, rickshaw driver, peon
- ancient occupationssoldier, merchant, farmer, shepherd, carpenter
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
- castle staffchamberlain, chambermaid, butler, guard, handmaiden
- dungeondungeon, oubliette, cell bars, torture chamber, chains
- historical rolesking, queen, emperor, knight, peasant
- in jailDetained in custody
- jail cellLocked prisoner compartment
- jail timePeriod of imprisonment
- get out of jail free
- thrown in jail
- go to jail
jail, jailed, jails, jailing, jailbird, jailhouse, jailbreak, jailers, jailor