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The phrase "at jail" is not correct in standard written English; the correct expression is "in jail." You can use "in jail" when referring to someone who is incarcerated or detained in a correctional facility.
Example: "After the trial, he was sentenced to five years in jail for his crimes."
Alternatives: "in prison" or "behind bars".
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"Looking at jail isn't easy.
But the clock is striking six, and Gabriel and Frank are due at jail.
Or weeping at the A.T.M. in the visiting room at jail.
That notation went ignored, Mr. Donovan said, when his son arrived at jail later that day.
"I didn't hear about it for hours and had to go get him at jail," Ms. Sexton said in a phone interview.
Samuel D. Waksal, the former ImClone Systems chief, wore a similar blazer-and-open-shirt combination, but with jeans, when he arrived at jail a few weeks ago, to begin his seven-year sentence for securities fraud and other crimes.
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He has been shot at, jailed and exiled.
Picking up deportation-eligible immigrants at jails and prisons is much cheaper and far easier logistically.
The most common news reports of abuse involve mistreatment of prisoners of Middle Eastern background at jails.
Most prisoners interviewed at jails in the eastern cities of Sanliurfa, Erzurum and Erzincan told similar stories.
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