jailhouse
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Alfonsi has reported on a range of subjects, including the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Covid superspreader event, the jailhouse death of Jeffrey Epstein and student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Department of Justice announced just before Christmas Eve it would stop monitoring the Orange County district attorney’s use of jailhouse informants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
The use of jailhouse informants is not an uncommon, or illegal, tactic and tool used by law enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
We’d pass below it every time they transported me between the jailhouse and the courthouse.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Beyond that, the jailhouse, but a larger jailhouse now, painted brown, with an office for the county clerk.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
Of the 5,400 officers assigned to the eight jailhouses on Rikers Island, 685 were posted at the Rose M. Singer Center, a minimum security facility that was housing about 235 women and transgender people.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
Guards in jailhouses housing people with the coronavirus are given high-quality N95 masks.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2020
Brennan had helped drive the effort in the 1960s and 1970s to desegregate America and extend the Constitution's protections to police encounters on the street, to jailhouses, to public schools and much more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016
Jeffs then began a circular journey through the jailhouses and courtrooms of the west.
From Time ● Jun. 12, 2010
A body of expertise, know-how and acumen has accumulated over centuries of crime and is handed down the generations in the criminal universities known as jailhouses and penitentiaries.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
