Definition of Jail

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Definition of Jail
	Jail A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. To imprison. Related Definitions: Building, Confinement, Custody, Especially, For, Future, Held, Imprison, In, Judicial, Kind, Lawful, Minor, Of, Or, Prison, Proceeding, Reference, Some, The, To, With

Jail Quotations

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt Cobain

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barry

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
Tupac Shakur

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
Tupac Shakur

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader

Jail Translations

jail in Dutch is gevangenis, nor, kerker
jail in French is prison
jail in Hungarian is dutyi, fogda
jail in Italian is prigione
jail in Latin is carcer
jail in Norwegian is fengsel, fengsle
jail in Portuguese is cadeia, prisno, cadeio

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