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jail cell

ʤeɪl sɛl
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Interesting fact
In South Carolina, an inmate who was paralyzed behind bars says in a lawsuit that Spartanburg County jail guards should have stopped him from doing back flips off a desk in his cell. Torrence Johnson, who is suing for unspecified damages, said recently that he fell and crushed a vertebra while being held in maximum-security in 1998.
  1. (n) jail cell
    a room where a prisoner is kept
Usage in the news

(CBS) Authorities say TV pitchman Don Lapre was found dead after an apparent suicide in an Arizona jail cell on Sunday morning. cbsnews.com

New Mexico corrections officers say an inmate escaped his jail cell by breaking a window bar with a razor blade and a Popsicle stick but changed his mind once he got outside. abclocal.go.com

Carlos Garcia told police it took about five months to break the bar on his cell window at the Lea County jail with those materials. abclocal.go.com

SAN BERNARDINO (AP) – A former Westminster police detective who blamed an antidepressant in an unsuccessful defense against a rape charge was found dead in his jail cell Friday, authorities said. ggjournal.com

Jail cells at Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield haunt all who dare. times-gazette.com

A woman tried to strangle herself with her thong underwear in a Weber County jail cell after being arrested on suspicion of stealing a wallet from a bar patron on St Patrick's Day. sltrib.com

3/12 (Harwich) Harwich police say a West Yarmouth man who was already under arrest on disorderly conduct charges - allegedly tore down the camera in his jail cell. 95wxtk.com

Keyes was found dead earlier this month after slitting a wrist and strangling himself with a rolled up sheet his Anchorage jail cell, where he was awaiting trial next year in Koenig's slaying. startribune.com

(CBS News) John McAfee, the security software developer who disappeared last month in Central America, is in a Guatemalan jail cell, facing questioning in connection with a murder case. cbsnews.com

From the mouths of babes to a jail cell . harpers.org

Jail inmate found dead in cell . kvii.com

LAS VEGAS (AP) — While Floyd Mayweather Jr sat in a jail cell, rapper 50 Cent set about signing fighters and putting together the promotional company he and Mayweather had long talked about. 10tv.com

While Floyd Mayweather Jr sat in a jail cell, rapper 50 Cent set about signing fighters and putting together the promotional company he and Mayweather had long talked about. theolympian.com

Man forgotten in jail cell for 5 days drank his urine to survive. standard.net

LEWISTON, Idaho — Officials with the Idaho State Police say an inmate found dead in a northern Idaho jail cell hanged himself and foul play is not suspected. therepublic.com

Usage in literature

Bridge and The Oskaloosa Kid were hustled into the single cell of the Payson jail. "The Oakdale Affair" by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In the mean time the outlaw, double-ironed, was confined in the condemned cell, the strongest portion of the county jail. "Capitola the Madcap" by Emma D. E. N. Southworth

He led Rathburn to one of the single cells, of which there were six on one side of the jail room proper. "The Coyote" by James Roberts

Days and weeks passed and the three imprisoned burglars languished in jail, each in a separate cell. "Hidden Hand" by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Meantime, in his cell in the county jail, Joe Newbolt was bearing the heaviest penance of his life. "The Bondboy" by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

Grant Adams sat in his cell, with the jail smell of stone and iron and damp in his nostrils. "In the Heart of a Fool" by William Allen White

If we were, through any misadventure, sent to jail, we would stipulate for permission to carry into our cell Hakluyt's Voyages. "Old Roads and New Roads" by William Bodham Donne

He carefully felt his way past the jail's only cell, and along the back wall. "The Scarlet Lake Mystery" by Harold Leland Goodwin

It wasn't a jail cell. "Insidekick" by Jesse Franklin Bone

Up to the advent of Superintendent Riley, there were in Auburn Prison two types of punishment cells: the jail, and the screen cells. "Within Prison Walls" by Thomas Mott Osborne

Usage in poetry
There stands the grim old court-house,
And the Jail with dingy cells,
And on the Church the old town-clock
The fleeting moment tells.
Then the unfortunate husband is arrested and cast into jail,
And sadly his fate he does bewail;
And he curses the hour that ever was born,
And paces his cell up and down very forlorn.
O, when the poar pris'ner is put in the jaile,
he is put in a cell and his doors are all bar'd
With a great long chane he is bound to the floor,
And dam thear mean soles thay can do nothing more.