jailer

Example Sentences

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That alone should mean that shipping people there runs afoul of domestic laws and potentially the Eighth Amendment, if indeed the U.S. can be legally considered the jailer.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2025

One is that most sheriffs worked in their office before the became sheriffs, as a deputy or a jailer or a staff member.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

It's a phenomenon oceanographers call a Taylor Column - and it's possible A23a might not escape its jailer for years.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

Rosales, a jailer for the city of South Gate, quickly took cover behind a telephone pole and watched the gunman.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2023

As Tam Lin once said, a jailer has a hundred things on his mind, but a prisoner has only one: escape.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer