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.
They admonished drunkards, jailed adulterers, and obligated reluctant suitors to marry pregnant sweethearts.
In addition, the troops of the line guarded the gates, the prisons, and the jails, and provided crowd control at the theaters and markets.
Resisters were court martialled and sent to civil jails.
Men accused of seduction were jailed until they relented or paid fines.
Opposition parties were banned or harassed out of existence, defiant leaders were exiled or jailed.
The jails, prisons, and houses of correction in which these offenders were confined, however, were not yet subjected to uniformly prescribed and enforced standards.
Asylums became repositories, as had the jails and workhouses before them, for any individual who could not be cared for in the community.
Members were often jailed and fined for violating ordinances and laws pertaining to public order and were targeted by antiterrorism measures.
