Jails Synonyms and Antonyms

A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pokies
  2. prisons
  3. pens
  4. penitentiaries
  5. houses-of-correction
  6. stirs
  7. clinks
  8. jugs
  9. coops
  10. slammers
  11. keeps
  12. tanks
  13. pounds
  14. reformatories
  15. cans
  16. stockades
  17. lockups
  18. limbos
  19. cages
  20. joints
  21. coolers
  22. cells
  23. dungeons
  24. goals
Antonyms:
  1. freedoms

Jails Sentence Examples

  • Then Fitz goes and jails Fred O'Connor just for spite.

  • There are also a deputy postmaster-general, chief superintendent and four superintendents of telegraphs, a chief collector of customs, three collectors and four port officers, and an inspector-general of jails.

  • I'll send you a file in a cake if Fitzgerald jails you for assault.

  • The labouring convicts are distributed among four jails and nineteen stations; the self-supporters in thirtyeight villages.

  • Each county provides for the indoor care of the poor in poor asylums and children's homes, and for local prisoners in county jails.

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