stockade
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In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
“It was like you’d gone back into the stockade and you could shut the gate and get on with the work.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023
Sr. recalls he started writing when he was in the stockade during the army.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2022
We were back within the stockade, confusion all around us, men screaming at each other and officers bellowing for order, the drummers playing tattoos to draw us to attention.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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