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jailhouse

[jayl-haus] / ˈdʒeɪlˌhaʊs /




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Time in the jailhouse for the “Mo Money Mo Problems” rapper has been shortened several times this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

In and out of detention for years, he was also, in Ms. Colloff’s words, “one of the most prolific, and most effective, jailhouse witnesses in American history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Ryan won an award from the New York Press Club in 2018 for coverage of a jailhouse informant scandal in Detroit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

We’d pass below it every time they transported me between the jailhouse and the courthouse.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025

She would never forget the rattle of the rain on the jailhouse roof, or the smell of wet wood, or the darkness that had saved them all; or how difficult it was not to cough.

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


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