jailer
Example Sentences
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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 ● Feb. 3, 2026
At trial, Sexton’s attorney portrayed him as an “overeager kid” trying to help the FBI, a low-ranking jailer who exaggerated his importance in the scheme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
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
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
