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jail
(redirected from Remand prison)

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jail: see prison prison, place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment was the chief mode of punishment for all but capital crimes.
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jail, gaol
a place for the confinement of persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment or of persons awaiting trial to whom bail is not granted
jail
1. A prison.
2. A building or place for the legal detention of persons.
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I was thrown into a remand prison where I slept in a room with more than 60 other inmates on a hard stone floor.
MY 'HELL'IN A THAI JAIL; Dad tells of fight to get sentence reduced by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
David Fulton, 60, had been held in a remand prison while his 46-year-old wife had been held at the police headquarters as they had been unable to meet their bail conditions since they were charged.
British missionaries sentenced to hard labour in Gambia by AFP / AFP European Edition
David Fulton, 60, had been held in a remand prison while his 46-year-old wife had been held at the police headquarters as they had been unable to meet their bail conditions since they were charged.
British missionaries sentenced to hard labour in Gambia by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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