The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word JAILS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2016.
Prisons crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| JAILS | 40 % | 5 |
| GAOLS | 20 % | 5 |
| CHAINSPLACES | 20 % | 12 |
| CAGES | 20 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Prisons
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- prison house
- arrests
- bars
- brig
- centers
- centres
- chains
- colonies
- correction
- correctional
- corrections
- custodial
Crossword Answer definitions
JAILS noun- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- Confinement in a jail.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- To imprison.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result JAILS
- Cages for some birds?
- Holding cells
- Cans
- Slammers
- Establishments with bars
- Locks up
- Lockups
- Places for certain birds?
- Puts behind bars
- Puts away
More clues leading to the result GAOLS
- London lockups
- British jails
- Coventry coolers
- Prisons of Penzance
- Leeds lockups
- Pens of England
- Plymouth pokies
- Pens for Dickens?
- Suffolk slammers
- Southampton stirs