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Brewer's: Jail-bird
(A). One who has been in jail as a prisoner.
“At this late period of Christianity we are brought up to abhor jail-birds as we do toads.” —
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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