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  1. List of paraphrases for "jails":

    prisons, prison, imprisons, gaols, penitentiaries, cachots

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  1. Joe Arpaio:

    Their solitary confinement is probably a lot nicer than what I have in my jails, joe Arpaio should never a live a better life in prison than on the outside.

  2. John Updike:

    The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

  3. Toni Preckwinkle:

    Jails in this country are petri dishes, it's very difficult in a jail to maintain social distancing.

  4. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop:

    I raised the fact that there were Indonesian prisoners in Australian jails and whether there was an opportunity for us to consider a prisoner swap, a prisoner transfer or a clemency plea in exchange for a return of prisoners, i just asked for a pause in their preparations for the execution of Mr Sukumaran and Mr Chan so that we could have officials explore these ideas.

  5. Horace Mann:

    Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

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