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Prisons & parts of prisons
approved school
Bastille
boot camp
borstal
brig
gaoler
halfway house
HMP
house of correction
open prison
panopticon
penal colony
penitentiary
prison
straightjacket
straitjacket
the gulag
warder
young offender institution
youth custody

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Putting people in prison

Examples of gaol

gaol
When convicted, there was only so much they could do to prevent a sentence of exemplary harshness and a bitter gaol experience.
After all, unsettled debts would damage a man's economic status among local traders and could potentially land him in gaol.
Styles regained consciousness only once the witch was back in gaol, but now seemed converted to a state of grace.
If barrio leaders were gaoled or excessively fined, they retaliated by blocking labour demands or disappearing.
They were desperately hungry, he wrote, being allowed less food than other prisoners in the same gaol.
Most of those in gaol had been debtors or those awaiting trial.
Just over half of the libel prosecutions of 1819-20 ended in some sort of sentence for the defendant, usually a few months in gaol.
Stealing, drinking or leading a dissolute life were ways to escape desperate situations, but these offences could lead to gaol terms.
They observed that gaols were in an abominable state and so detrimental to the inmates' health that their lives were in jeopardy.
Undoubtedly some magistrates did their best to stamp out the crime by uncompromisingly fining and gaoling offenders.
Incarcerated offenders go through the relatively unique experience of time in gaol.
Inconvenient obstructions like the old gaol-house were demolished.
The result was the defaulter was gaoled for a period of one to six weeks.
In the post-independence period has remained in gaol or 'house-arrest' for many years-perhaps longer than any other politician in the sub-continent.
Courthouses and gaols, as well as the other accoutrements of the criminal justice system, came under their auspices.
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