Preventing - the inmates from escaping was achieved by the presence of gaolers (sajjan) or soldiers and by chaining the inmates.
After going insolvent in 1826, he had to sell most of his goods (worth £23 2s 9d) and sought work as a gaoler with some success.
Several local officers, including clerks of the peace and gaolers, were appointed and paid by the grand jury.
While the majority of prisoners duly recanted their beliefs, those who could appeal to sympathetic gaolers or state officials found the prospects more propitious.
When we make the contributory principle our gaoler, putting on irons and handcuffs, the time has come to break out.
All that it has done is to change its garb from that of gaoler to that of governess.
But the staff are not gaolers, they are medical people; they are following a vocation.
One tends to think that prison officers are just gaolers.
