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
While in Palm Beach sheriff’s custody, Epstein was allowed to stay in an isolated cell at the county’s minimum-security stockade, where he roamed freely and watched television.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023
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
Then he shouted, “Sergeant, take this boy up to the stockade to see Sam Meeker. See that they stay six feet apart and pass nothing between them.”
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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