jails
Puts behind bars
Jails are facilities where people are confined, typically while awaiting trial or serving short sentences.
In American usage, jails are local institutions run by cities or counties, distinct from prisons, which hold those serving longer terms.
The verb jail means to put someone in such a facility: They jailed him overnight for disorderly conduct.
Confinement for offenders
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- cellblockPrison housing unit
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- lockupTemporary detention facility
dungeon · reformatory · stockade · cage · holding · brig · detention · cell
Confined facility resident
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- detaineePerson held in custody
- guardWatchful defensive attention
corrections officer · convict · trusty · lifer · cellmate · turnkey
Court-set release payment
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- remandReturn for further proceedings
- custodyProtective care or control
- bookingAdvance arrangement secured
parole · probation · sentencing · bond · release · pretrial · charges · conviction
prison
Confinement for offenders
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- cellblockPrison housing unit
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
lockup · dungeon · reformatory · stockade · cage · holding · brig · detention · cell · bars
inmate
Confined facility resident
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- detaineePerson held in custody
guard · corrections officer · convict · trusty · lifer · cellmate · turnkey
bail
Court-set release payment
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- remandReturn for further proceedings
- custodyProtective care or control
booking · parole · probation · sentencing · bond · release · pretrial · charges · conviction · time served
- justicecourtroom, trials, retributive justice, courts, gavel
- punishespunishes, penalizes, disciplines, chastises, castigates
- placescity, town, village, hamlet, building
- criminal justicearrest, court, prison, crime, guilty
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- public propertypublic land, public park, public lands, state property, public library
- 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, jailer, jailing, jailhouse, jailers, jailhouses