Gaol

Tyrannical governments frequently gaol their political opponents.

Soon we'll be able to send you to gaol.

My English is Canadian English, not British. We have "metre" and not "meter," but we have "jail" and not "gaol." But I think that in Britain, "jail" is becoming popular, too.

How many people are in gaol?

He is locked up in gaol.

How many people are in gaol in this country?

There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning – he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way —

There was a simple reason for Sirius' complete absence from Harry's life until then – Sirius had been in Azkaban, the terrifying wizard gaol guarded by creatures called Dementors, […]