To dream that you are in jail, suggests that you are feeling restrained or censored in your work environment, relationship or situation in your life. You are feeling confined and suffocated. Alternatively, it represents self-punishment and guilt. You are involved in some wrong doing.
If you dream that you are in jail, you are feeling suffocated in a relationship or situation. If you dream your crush is in jail, it is a signal that this person is deceitful and untrustworthy. Also see Arrested.
To see others in jail, you will be urged to grant privileges to persons whom you believe to be unworthy. For a young woman to dream that her lover is in jail, she will be disappointed in his character, as he will prove a deceiver. See Gaol
A lover in jail shows this person is a deceiver and not to be trusted. To see strangers in jail may mean you will be asked to help someone you do not feel is deserving. To be in jail may mean you are suffering from a feeling of confinement and too much togetherness with your spouse. To see someone on death row denotes the death of an unhappy relationship.
Family grief.