Jail
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Jail can refer to:
- County Jail, a place of detention for people awaiting trial in the American judicial system.
- Chroot jail, a command on Unix operating systems is an operation which changes the root directory.
- Jail (computer security), a generic name for a sandbox mechanism which works by imposing additional resource limits on programs.
- Prison, a place in which individuals are physically confined and deprived of personal freedoms.
- FreeBSD jail, a miniature, secure, isolated FreeBSD environment tied to a single IP address.
- Jail (film), a 1966 Malayalam film directed by M. Kunjako.
- Jail is a location on the Monopoly game board.
See also
- Gaol, earlier alternative spelling of the word "Jail", still in official use in Australia.
- Jailhouse lawyer
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