Jailer
noun
A person who is in charge of a jail or the prisoners in it.
The jailer holds the keys to all the cells.
Often appears as...
- prison jailer
- jailer's key
noun
A person who is in charge of a jail or the prisoners in it.
The jailer holds the keys to all the cells.
Often appears as...
- prison jailer
- jailer's key
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Reflects authority over prisoners and responsibility within the penal system.
The jailer sternly surveyed the inmates during roll call.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Police
Jailers oversee inmates, unlike police who enforce laws in the community.
After arrest, the police handed the suspect to the jailer for detention.
Pro Tip 3/3Controlled Access
A jailer controls access to jail areas, managing security and movement.
The jailer unlocked the door to the recreation area for the prisoners.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Reflects authority over prisoners and responsibility within the penal system.
The jailer sternly surveyed the inmates during roll call.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Police
Jailers oversee inmates, unlike police who enforce laws in the community.
After arrest, the police handed the suspect to the jailer for detention.
Pro Tip 3/3Controlled Access
A jailer controls access to jail areas, managing security and movement.
The jailer unlocked the door to the recreation area for the prisoners.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Reflects authority over prisoners and responsibility within the penal system.
The jailer sternly surveyed the inmates during roll call.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Police
Jailers oversee inmates, unlike police who enforce laws in the community.
After arrest, the police handed the suspect to the jailer for detention.
Pro Tip 3/3Controlled Access
A jailer controls access to jail areas, managing security and movement.
The jailer unlocked the door to the recreation area for the prisoners.
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Video examples
The dark history of the...
Under constant guard, she composed songs expressing her love for her people and began making a patchwork quilt that told the story of her life. While she was only allowed news that had been reviewed by her jailers,
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Larry Smith: Why you...
Do you really want to use your family, do you really ever want to look at your spouse and your kid, and see your jailers? There was something you could have said to your kid,
Video examples
The dark history of the...
Under constant guard, she composed songs expressing her love for her people and began making a patchwork quilt that told the story of her life. While she was only allowed news that had been reviewed by her jailers,
Video examples
Larry Smith: Why you...
Do you really want to use your family, do you really ever want to look at your spouse and your kid, and see your jailers? There was something you could have said to your kid,
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.
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William Hull
American Soldier
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how we should act and how we should be, then Nelson Mandela is the man to follow.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Novelist
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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John F. Kennedy
American President
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Quote examples
Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.
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William Hull
American Soldier
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how we should act and how we should be, then Nelson Mandela is the man to follow.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Novelist
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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John F. Kennedy
American President
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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