'Jail' in the Bible
and laid hands upon the Apostles, and put them into the public jail.
Having received that command they went into the Temple, just before daybreak, and began to teach: So when the High Priest and his party came, and had called together the Sanhedrin as well as all the Elders of the descendants of Israel, they sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.
saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."
He had him arrested and lodged in jail, handing him over to the care of sixteen soldiers; and intended after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.
and, after severely flogging them, they threw them into jail and bade the jailer keep them safely.
Starting up from sleep and seeing the doors of the jail wide open, the jailer drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.