jailers
They lock up
Jailers are people who run or work in a jail, responsible for guarding prisoners and maintaining order.
The term applies to anyone from a medieval dungeon keeper to a modern corrections officer: The jailers escorted the prisoner to his cell.
Figuratively, anything that confines can be called a jailer: Addiction became his jailer.
Lock-operating instruments
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- controlAuthority to direct
restrictions · confinement · punishment · solitary · segregation · shackles · restraints · strip searches
Supervisory officials of institutions
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
- correctional officersPrison security staff
- turnkeysPrison guards, keepers
- keepersThose who maintain
custodians · sentries · watchmen · overseers · detention officers · security personnel
Those who subjugate others
- captorsThose holding prisoners
- tyrantsOppressive absolute rulers
- enslaversThose who own humans
- controllersThose who direct operations
dominators · subjugators · imprisoners · confining · restraining · trapping · suffocating · binding
Detention facilities for criminals
- penitentiariesInstitutions housing convicted criminals
- correctional facilitiesInstitutions housing convicted offenders
- detention centersPlaces confining people awaiting proceedings
- jailsDetention facilities
lockups · holding cells · county jails · maximum security · minimum security · cell blocks · intake · processing
Underground prison chambers
- stockadesEnclosed wooden fortifications
- gaolsPlaces of incarceration
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
- chainsLinked metal restraints
fetters · gallows · executioners · torture · oubliettes · Tower of London · Bastille · leg irons
keys
Lock-operating instruments
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
control · restrictions · confinement · punishment · solitary · segregation · shackles · restraints · strip searches · pat-downs
wardens
Supervisory officials of institutions
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
- correctional officersPrison security staff
- turnkeysPrison guards, keepers
keepers · custodians · sentries · watchmen · overseers · detention officers · security personnel
oppressors
Those who subjugate others
controllers · dominators · subjugators · imprisoners · confining · restraining · trapping · suffocating · binding · shackling
prisons
Detention facilities for criminals
- penitentiariesInstitutions housing convicted criminals
- correctional facilitiesInstitutions housing convicted offenders
- detention centersPlaces confining people awaiting proceedings
jails · lockups · holding cells · county jails · maximum security · minimum security · cell blocks · intake · processing · booking
dungeons
Underground prison chambers
- stockadesEnclosed wooden fortifications
- gaolsPlaces of incarceration
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
chains · fetters · gallows · executioners · torture · oubliettes · Tower of London · Bastille · leg irons · manacles
- oppressorstyrants, despots, dictators, autocrats, authoritarians
- imprisonmentprison, prisoners, cells, captivity, dungeons
- Historical Policingconstables, sheriffs, watchmen, night watch, bobbies
jailersliberators
Those who free captives
emancipators · rescuers · freers · deliverers · abolitionists