jails

Synonyms

penitentiary lockup jailhouse slammer handcuffs reform school

Examples

$10 million to reimburse counties for housing prisoners in jails. Source: Internet

ACA accredits over 900 prisons, jails, community residential centers (halfway houses) and various other corrections facilities in the U.S. using their independently published Standards manuals. Source: Internet

According to Teotonio R. DeSouza, recent critical accounts indicate that apart from the posted civil servants, "the great majority of those who were dispatched as 'discoverers' were the riff-raff of Portuguese society, picked up from Portuguese jails." Source: Internet

According to sources involved in the cases, 4 were released, 41 members of several communes across the province have been convicted and are appealing the verdicts, and over a dozen are currently detained in the jails in their local communes. Source: Internet

Across the United States, prisons and jails have become for COVID-19. Source: Internet

And so, many people, unable to manage their lives because of mental illness, wind up on the street or in jails. Source: Internet