variants
or less commonly jailor
1
: a keeper of a jail
2
: one that restricts another's liberty as if by imprisonment
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The county coroner, jailer and treasurer were Black, as was the register of deeds.
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Essence, 8 Feb. 2025
The county medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and two other jailers — Rafael Moreno and Joel Garcia — have been indicted on murder charges.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2025
But citing advice from fire officials, the Sheriff’s Department decided to have more than 4,500 inmates and 300 jailers shelter in place, drawing criticism from inmate advocates and families.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The show, based on Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury’s 2019 non-fiction book ‘Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer’, comes from Vikramaditya Motwane and is about Gupta’s time as a young jailer at the infamous Tihar Prisons complex in Delhi.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
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Essence, 8 Feb. 2025
The county medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and two other jailers — Rafael Moreno and Joel Garcia — have been indicted on murder charges.
—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2025
But citing advice from fire officials, the Sheriff’s Department decided to have more than 4,500 inmates and 300 jailers shelter in place, drawing criticism from inmate advocates and families.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The show, based on Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury’s 2019 non-fiction book ‘Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer’, comes from Vikramaditya Motwane and is about Gupta’s time as a young jailer at the infamous Tihar Prisons complex in Delhi.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Jailer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jailer. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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