jailhouse
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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
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
Scott Sanders, a former longtime Orange County public defender, is credited with uncovering the use of jailhouse informants during the Dekraii case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
What happened after you arrived at the jailhouse?
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
Winnie leaned against the fence, her hands gripping the warm metal of the bars, and thought about Mae behind another set of bars in the jailhouse.
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
