0 a place where criminals are kept to punish them for their crimes, or where people accused of crimes are kept while waiting for their trials:
1 to put someone in a jail:
He was jailed for three years.
2 a place where criminals are kept as a punishment for their crimes or while waiting for trial:
[ C ] County jails are already overcrowded.
Arrangements were made to move the prisoners to another jail.
He's stayed out of trouble since he was released from jail last year.
There has been a mass breakout from one of Germany's top security jails.
He has been languishing in jail for the past 20 years.
He was jailed for four months for drink-driving.
Protestors were executed, jailed or otherwise persecuted.
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