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holds the keys yet locks himself in every single day.
means A jailer is the person in charge of keeping prisoners locked up and guarding a jail.
from From Old French 'gaiole' or 'jaiole,' meaning a cage, which traces back through Late Latin 'caveola,' a little cage — a diminutive of Latin 'cavea,' a hollow or enclosure (the same root that gives us 'cage' and 'cave'). So the jailer is, quite literally, the keeper of the little cage. The spelling split into 'jailer' and the older 'gaoler' — the latter still lingers in British texts, looking stranger every year.
- shared sentence
- spends more hours inside than most inmates do
- old title
- gaoler in Britain, pronounced exactly the same
- medieval pay
- often earned wages by charging prisoners for food
- key power
- a single ring could control hundreds of lives
- etymology
- rooted in Latin cavea, meaning cage or hollow
shawshank state penitentiary — fictional prison from stephen king's 1982 novella, famously depicted in the 1994 film where the warden and jailer corrupt system is central to the plot
alcatraz prison — operated 1934-1963 on alcatraz island in san francisco bay, known for its strict jailers and maximum-security operations
torre de londres — tower of london, employed jailers for centuries, most notably during anne boleyn's imprisonment in 1536