[ noun ] someone who guards prisoners <noun.person>
Jailer \Jail"er\, n. [OE. jailer, gailer, OF. geolier, F. ge[^o]lier. See {Jail}.] The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also {jailor}, {gaoler}.]
In the one-store hamlet of Spotted Horse, former roustabout Craig McGee, a slight man in scuffed boots and torn jeans, downs a beer and reviews his job search: tried to get hired as a dogcatcher but wasn't qualified, tried for a jailer's job but failed.
After sentencing Debra Shaw to the maximum jail time, District Court Judge David W. Young then instructed a jailer to give the woman's two children a tour of the courthouse holding cells.
"I am not a jailer," he proclaimed.
It was the latter. As a result of the debacle it was not, in the German view, the prisoners who were freed by the collapse of the ERM, but the jailer.
A jailer was sprayed in the face with Mace during the apparent escape attempt, authorities said.
The struggle began just after noon Wednesday when the 63-year-old Ploeger, a retired jailer from Sandstone, Minn., hooked the fish about four miles upstream from the Soldotna Bridge in south-central Alaska about 75 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Negotiators spoke with Firth on a police radio that he had obtained from a jailer in the courtroom.
To make sure they do, television cameras are installed in the homes, and a jailer calls at random times to make sure the subject is at home.
But in smaller ones, they must be administrator, investigator and jailer, among other things.
Until recently, when a night jailer was hired, one of them was always on duty from 7 a.m. to midnight.
"I have to come home at night and soak my feet from stomping out crime all day," says jailer Steve Standley's card, which shows him next to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle poster.