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A place where people are confined, often awaiting trial or serving a short sentence.
means A building where people are locked up, usually awaiting trial or serving a short sentence.
from Comes from Old French 'gaiole' or 'jaiole,' both descending from Latin 'caveola,' a little cage — itself a diminutive of 'cavea,' meaning cage or hollow. English inherited both the hard-G and soft-J spellings from Norman and Parisian French dialects respectively, which is why 'gaol' and 'jail' stubbornly coexisted for centuries — same word, two spellings feuding on the page, with 'jail' eventually winning out in common use.
- vs prison
- jail is short-term and local, prison is long-term and federal/state
- origin
- word comes from Latin cavea, meaning cage
- bail purpose
- legally just insurance you will show up to trial
- phone calls
- the one call myth is not actually a guaranteed law