Gaol

Gaol can refer to:

Gaol American/British English "jail", Early Modern English spelling. Though this spelling is seldom used today, it is still considered the official spelling in Australian English. Gaol is pronounced "jail". Jails and prisons are very different and used for different purposes.
Gaol (god), a wind god in Iroquois mythology

Gaol Fever, a malignant form of typhus. occurs when prisoners are frequently huddled together in dark, filthy rooms, in close proximity to depravity and disease. Under such conditions, gaol fever swept through the prisons. Imprisonment until the next term of court was often equivalent to a death sentence. In 1759 an English authority estimated that each year a fourth of the people in prison died there. It was so pestilential that prisoners brought before the Lent Assize at Taunton (1730) infected the court itself -- causing the deaths of the lord chief baron, the sheriff, the sergeant, and hundreds of others. More prisoners died from 'gaol fever' than were put to death by all the public executioners in the realm -- at a time when there were 241 capital offenses." Ralph D. Smith, Comment, Criminal Law -- Arrest -- The Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest, 7 NAT. RESOURCES J. 119, 122 n.16 (1967) (hereinafter Comment) (citing JOHN HOWARD, THE STATE OF PRISONS 6-7 (1929)) (Howard's observations are from 1773 to 1775).Section copied from STATE v. VALENTINE May 1997 132 Wn.2d 1, 935 P.2d 1294

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