What's the difference between jail and jailer?

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.

Jailer


Definition:

  • (n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2013, Egypt was among the most prolific jailers of journalists in the world, according to a recent survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
  • (2) He ordered the jailers to put our feet up to beat us.
  • (3) Our response to these challenging circumstances can of course be scrutinised but no one should lose sight [of the fact] that the responsibility for jailing journalists lies firmly with the jailers.” Adel Iskandar, a communications expert at Georgetown University, Washington DC, said AJE had clearly suffered because of the network’s Arabic channels.
  • (4) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
  • (5) Those years feel now like a perverse captivity in which I was jailer as well as prisoner.
  • (6) The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which has branded Iran as one of the world's worst jailers of journalists, has asked Tehran to shed light on the situation of the detainees.
  • (7) According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Iran is currently the world's second-worst jailer of journalists, with 45 behind bars Iranian journalists working in exile have not been immune from the crackdown, nor foreign media inside the country.
  • (8) Rosewater focuses primarily on the relationship between Bahari (Gael García Bernal) and one particular jailer, played by Kim Bodnia (Martin in Scandinavian TV thriller The Bridge).
  • (9) Shaker Aamer , released after 14 years incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay where he was beaten by his American military jailers, has touched down on British soil at Biggin Hill airport in south-east London.
  • (10) One of the artists, Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, explains that the panopticon-shaped space, called Güiro, was inspired by the interior of a notorious Cuban jail – only here the jailer is a bartender and the prisoners are the drinkers.
  • (11) No reform of the draconian catch-all anti-terror legislation that, among other things, has been abused to make Turkey the world's biggest jailer of journalists.
  • (12) One day, when his jailers held a party, Mujica began to scream for it; the commandant, embarrassed in front of his guests, relented.
  • (13) Turkey has a chequered history on press freedom and was the world’s top jailer of journalists in 2012 and 2013.
  • (14) Even Marcos's defence minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, brutal jailer of the democracy campaigners, was placated by Aquino, eventually finishing up as a senator.
  • (15) On 14 May, a frantic Mobley called his sister to say his jailers were beating him with sticks: “ They’re trying to kill me here at the prison .” Reprieve’s Craig, in her letter to the State Department, reminded US diplomats of her request to share coordinate information on Mobley’s location with their Saudi allies in order to spare his life.
  • (16) Marzieh Rasouli reported to Evin prison in Tehran on Tuesday, where she became the latest of dozens of journalists imprisoned by the Islamic republic, which has been branded as one of the world's worst jailer of journalists by the New York Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
  • (17) Hari managed to bribe his jailers and escape back to the UK via Russia and is now filing a second claim for asylum.
  • (18) According to a report in Thursday's print edition of Haaretz, based on accounts from prison service officials, Prisoner X2 is held in a cell without windows, has no contact with other prisoners or jailers, and prison guards do not know his identity or any charges on which he has been convicted.
  • (19) While he was rotting in jail, Hague and Ashcroft were meeting his jailers.
  • (20) His jailers had to tip the cage on to its side to get him out.