B1 a place where criminals are kept to punish them for their crimes, or where people accused of crimes are kept while waiting for their trials监狱;看守所
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Arrangements were made to move the prisoners to another jail.
He faces three years in jail for selling narcotics.
He's stayed out of trouble since he was released from jail last year.
There has been a mass breakout from one of Germany's top security jails.
He has been languishing in jail for the past 20 years.
to put someone in a jail监禁
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He was jailed for four months for drink-driving.
Protestors were executed, jailed or otherwise persecuted.
He was jailed for 15 years for stabbing his wife to death.
California's "three strikes and you're out" bill means that from now on criminals found guilty of three crimes are jailed for life.
He was jailed for revealing secrets to the Russians.
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