calaboose

But mind, the three waifs were never in the town; only on the beach and in the calaboose.

Of course, and if we leave him in that weak old calaboose, they'll get more help and take him out to-night.

An army might lose enthusiasm and prestige if it spent a night or two in the calaboose.

They conducted us to what they had termed "the calaboose," a big, ramshackle, one-roomed barn-like structure.