Now, in all these jails we were searched and examined before being admitted for a night's shelter, but often in a very indifferent manner.
We visited, and were entertained, in several jails during this winter, and emerged from the last in the middle of April.
There is more jails than this, and not much difference in them, and to go out in the cold for a day or two makes us better appreciate the warmth and comfort within.
You can there enter jails without committing offence of any kind, and take ten, fifteen, twenty or thirty days, all at your own sweet discretion.
We are building central jails to empty the district jails, and we are remodelling the district jails and rebuilding two or three.
The condition ofJails and Lunatic Asylums in India.
All over the three provinces, men and women were hauled out of their beds in the dead hour of night to prison, till the jails were choked.
Denial of the use of jails in the District of Columbia 80 Sec.
After this, many States, seeing the advantage thus given them, passed laws which forbade the officers to aid in a fugitive slave case, and also denied the use of their jails for imprisonment.
On the basis of the Prigg decision, a law was enacted which forbade State magistrates to issue certificates or take cognizance of the law of 1793, and withheld the use of State jails for the imprisonment of fugitives.
Denial of the use of the jails in the District of Columbia.
The effect was the act of 1843, forbidding all officers to aid in the recapture of a fugitive slave, or to permit the use of State jails for their imprisonment.
Denial of the use of jailsin the District of Columbia.
It did not provide a national machinery whereby its provisions could be executed, and many of the States by means of the personal liberty laws refused to lend their officers and jails for the work.
It was notorious that almost under the windows of the Capitol negroes were confined in public jails on the ground that they were fugitives; and that a free negro so confined might be sold for his jail fees.
Slavery was forbidden in the District of Columbia, and there could be no escapes thence; and Congress forbade the use of the jails of the District for the confinement of fugitives from slaveholding regions.
Society grew tired of turning county jails into tramp colleges, from which, after a very pleasant winter's rest, the tramp graduated in the spring and was again let loose upon the community.
Tramps were compelled to work or starve in our county jails long before 1910.
Slaveholding States shut up in their jails our colored seamen soon as they arrive in a southern port.
They can make our jails institutions which really render their inmates better, and send them out whole men, safe and sound.
Tell not him of the misery of the poor, he knows better; nor of our paltry way of dealing with public crime, he wants more jails and a speedier gallows.
This same disproportionate love of money appears in the fact, that the merchants of Boston still allow colored seamen to be taken from their ships and shut up in the jails of another State.
No doubt a thorough change must be made in the idea of criminal legislation; vengeance must give way to justice, policemen become moral missionaries, and jails moral hospitals, that discharge no criminal until he is cured.
When vengeance is the aim, violence is the most suitable method; jails and the gallows most appropriate instruments!
There were jails supplied, youth seduced, infamous women drilled in, the provision all brought out of England, and that embezzled by the Trustees.
The narrow stairways and halls are similar to those of jails and dungeons of a century ago.
She could manage 'em widout nothin' lak dat, and I never did hear of no jails in de country 'roun' whar us lived.
I believe it is just as essential to havejails as to have churches.
Once more the jails were filled, which the mercy of Durham had emptied.
The fact is, we go on increasing our expenses for police, for criminal procedure, for jails and prisons, and we go on increasing the criminal class and those affiliated with it.
Even in the jailsit was impossible to segregate all the prisoners, and complaints are frequent of these wolves in sheep's clothing who infected their more innocent fellow-captives.
At best the jails of the Middle Ages were frightful abodes of misery.
Even the tramp is a less patient person in county jails than he is in the open; but his stay there is so short, and the confinement, compared with that in convict prisons, is so much easier to bear, that he soon recuperates.
The jailsare mean places to get into, the discipline being severe, and work being exacted of the prisoners.
But he must be careful not to be arrested, for the jails in the South are man-killing holes in many and many an instance.
In many of these jails the order and discipline are superb, and work is required of the prisoners--and work is the last thing a real tramp ever means to undertake.
Her legal right to pass that act is admitted; her magistrates were not bound to act under the federal law--her jails were not liable to be used for federal purposes.
Seventy-two private houses and four strong jails were destroyed in the four great days of these riots.
He was imprisoned in an Ohio jail, the United States then having none of their own, but placing all their convicts in State jails or prisons under a contract with the State to keep them for a certain price.
So Jimmie told about starvation and neglect, about overwork and unemployment, about strikes and jails and manifold oppressions.
And they knew that this glad message would never die--not all the jails and clubs and machine-guns in the country could kill it, not obloquy and ridicule, not hunger and cold and disease.
An unknown number were in county and city jails awaiting trial and serving out fines.
County and city jails for the detention of offenders awaiting trial.
No steps had been taken to ascertain whether, on the one hand, the jails afforded any accommodation whatever for such lunatics, or whether, on the other, convict lunatics could be properly received into the district asylums.
The consequence is that many are placed in jails or almshouses.
The Lords' Committee, of course, insisted on the necessity of discontinuing the committal of lunatics to jails and bridewells, and amending the Act 1 Vict.
In the physician's report of one asylum for 1816, he speaks of the miserable objects who wander over the face of the country, or are inmates of jails and hospitals.
Thus it was that "the numbers crowding the countyjails were truly distressing, and were made the subject of universal complaint by the local authorities.
In preparing this Report, the Agent had written to all the jails in the State, proposing over thirty questions for answers, in order to develop the state of crime and the penal working in our commonwealth.
And are not some of our jails themselves nuisances, a disgrace to the State?
As now managed our jails are prolific schools of crime.
The demand for farm labor has finally forced our jails and penitentiaries to give up the labor so sorely needed on the farms.
But we had the jails on hand and it was perhaps the easiest plan to lock the prisoners in their cells with the assurance that they could be found when wanted.
Our forefathers built abbeys and priories and churches, and they made such use of them that jails were nearly unnecessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
