jailer

Example Sentences

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Inmates dug through rubble to excavate their own jailers, said relatives of current prisoners.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time.

From Literature

Rather than jailers, these corrections officers were more like social workers or guides to a better way of living.

From Los Angeles Times

There are more than 120 journalists detained in China, according to RSF, which calls the country "the world's biggest jailer of journalists".

From BBC

One woman, 33, said that in or around June, a jailer stopped in a dark stairwell as he was escorting her in handcuffs to a transport bus for a court appearance.

From Los Angeles Times