What's the difference between brig and jail?

Brig


Definition:

  • (n.) A bridge.
  • (n.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Born in Brig, a Swiss-German speaking Alpine town close to the border with Italy, he studied law at Fribourg university, then worked as the secretary general of the International Centre for Sports Studies at the University of Neuchâtel.
  • (2) During a visit to Nigeria in August, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, congratulated the government for reclaiming swaths of territory, while Brig Gen Mansur Dan-Ali, the defence minister, told local media last week that the government had “eradicated almost 95% of Nigeria’s security challenges within one year”.
  • (3) In Terry's recording from 1969, one black sailor describes how, "when they caught a brother with an Afro, they just took him down to the brig and cut all his hair off and throw him in jail.
  • (4) This was always the question I repeatedly asked of Bush supporters who embraced this same War on Terror theory to justify all of his claimed powers: how can any cognizable limits be placed on that power, including as applied to US citizens on US soil (and indeed, the Bush administration did apply that theory to those circumstances, as when it arrested US citizen Jose Padilla in Chicago and then imprisoned him for several years in a military brig in South Carolina: all without charges).
  • (5) A shrubby plant, abundant in east Kenya, Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Brig., was shown to exhibit repellent and acaricidal properties to larvae, nymphs and adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Amblyomma variegatum ticks.
  • (6) But when asked by one of the audience what he thought about the "elephant in the room" – the US "torturing a prisoner in a military brig" – he replied without pausing that he thought the Pentagon's actions were "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid".
  • (7) After apparent outside pressure on the brig due to my mistreatment, I was given a suicide prevention article of clothing called a "smock" by the guards.
  • (8) I stood at parade rest for about three minutes … The [brig supervisor] and the other guards walked past my cell.
  • (9) 2.41pm BST A commenter takes issue with our characterization in the intro of Manning's Quantico confinement as being under "harsh conditions" : anairbagsavedmylife 21 August 2013 2:16pm his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
  • (10) Initially, after surrendering my clothing to the brig guards, I had no choice but to lay naked in my cold jail cell until the following morning.
  • (11) PJ Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs at the US state department, said Manning was being "mistreated" in the military brig at Quantico, Virginia.
  • (12) In Senate testimony that June, Adm William McRaven, who commanded the Seal raid that killed Osama bin Laden, testified that the administration lacked a detentions policy, which had forced the Boxer brig to be used as a floating Guantánamo surrogate.
  • (13) A Nigerian army spokesman, Brig Gen Olajide Laleye also insisted that victory was close on Wednesday, dismissing reports of troops suffering from low morale and lack of basic equipment including bullet-proof vests.
  • (14) Brig Sheldon said the alleged actions of the soldiers, if proved, could never be justified.
  • (15) Crisis in Yemen – the Guardian briefing Read more The coalition spokesman, the Saudi army’s Brig Gen Ahmed Asiri, vowed a “harsh response” to the attacks and said the Houthis “made a mistake by targeting Saudi cities”.
  • (16) This is because suicide risk would have required a brig mental health provider's recommendation in order for the added restrictions to continue.
  • (17) In Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina has a populist president who is doing what all populists do: seeking an issue to divert public attention from her government's real problems, which are more to do with inflation and bondholders than anything a British brig-sloop did 180 years ago.
  • (18) In response to this specific incident, the brig psychiatrist met with me.
  • (19) Late Royal Regiment of Artillery Brig Timothy Patrick Robinson, OBE.
  • (20) Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the US, said sending ground troops remained “on the table” and the operation’s spokesman, Brig Gen Ahmed Asseri, declined to comment on reports that Saudi special forces were in Aden.

Jail


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
  • (v. t.) To imprison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
  • (3) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
  • (4) He is not the only jailed or exiled opponent of the CCP.
  • (5) The private eye was well known to the News of the World, having worked for the paper for several years before he was jailed, when Coulson was deputy editor.
  • (6) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
  • (7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
  • (8) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (9) But Gashi told the Guardian: "I am responsible for innocent people going to jail.
  • (10) The highly critical report brought an immediate response from Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, who said the jail would receive the support it needed to build on its recent progress.
  • (11) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
  • (12) His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian jail in 2009 after being refused medical treatment.
  • (13) I'm here to defend her 'til the end even if they put me in jail."
  • (14) Also in June, a former welfare minister, Shlomo Benizri , was jailed for four years for taking bribes while in office.
  • (15) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
  • (16) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
  • (17) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
  • (18) To gauge whether more stringent civil commitment criteria have led to the criminalization of mentally ill persons, forcing them into jails and prisons instead of treating them, a statewide sample of 1,226 civil commitment candidates in North Carolina was tracked for six months after their commitment hearings.
  • (19) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
  • (20) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.