Jails is valid Scrabble Word

Is jails a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for JAILS in dictionary:

VERB:

JAIL, to imprison, also GAOL
put (someone) in jail

NOUN:

a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to put in jail (a place of confinement)

Words related to JAILS

jail11 jailed14 jailing15

How to use JAILS in a sentence

The jails of Aberdeen and adjoining towns were filled with strikers.
Scores were held in filthy jails for as long as twenty-six months awaiting trial.
But even as these lines are written the jails and prisons of America are filled to overflowing with men and women whose only crime is loyalty to the working class.
He had slept standing jammed against the wall in the Idris of Omdurman, one of the most terrible jails of all time, and a huge foot on his face was a matter of no moment.
We spoke in jails, prisons, asylums, depots, and the open air.
Thus it is with all the political and civil bodies in the island, from the House of Assembly, to committees on jails and houses of correction.
A very large number of the Huguenot refugees were brought back, and the jails and galleys of France were crowded with them.
We desire to plead the cause of the voiceless multitude who occupy our Indian Jails.
He has seen the inside of nearly all the Colombo jails, but without being made any better.
In some of the jails, open sewers ran through corridors and cells, so that the poor inmates had to fight for their lives with the vermin which nourished there.

Committee of Aldermen to consider all matters relating to the jails of this city.
Afterwards he was sent back to America and held prisoner at Halifax and New York, in jails and prison-ships, being most of the time harshly treated and kept heavily ironed.
From the laxity of the law, they were performed at all hours, frequently in private houses, and sometimes even in jails, by pretended clergymen.
The narrow stairways and halls are similar to those of jails and dungeons of a century ago.
There are no jails, and no criminals are executed in its bounds.
Prisons and jails are not, in their foundation and management, reformatory institutions, and only become so through influences not necessarily nor ordinarily acting upon them.
When visiting the various jails of the State, he found in one six persons detained for crimes of various character, between all of whom there was a family relation.
And the parliament had no further occupation than to fill all the jails with their open or secret enemies.
In comparison with death, the condition of the prisoners, with whom the jails and fortresses were crowded to suffocation, was scarcely to be envied.
In all the cities of Europe and America, vast buildings have been erected to serve as jails for the criminals.
Jails and other penal institutions are constantly sorting their inmates and finding many who were clearly insane at the time their sentences began.
Old jails throughout the islands have been rendered sanitary, or replaced by new ones.
The laws that govern jails are bad If such displays are lawful.
His company of followers, having been recruited from the jails of France, proved as unruly as might have been expected.
It was forbidden to light the entrance to the jails, so that the newcomers should take no observations.
The United States pays each of these States for the use of its jails.
Sentences of fine are more often resorted to than other punishments nowadays, probably because very few of the Siems possess jails for the reception of criminals.

Similar words containing JAIL without suffix s

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