jailhouse
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Origin of jailhouse
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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
Alarmed by the growing jailhouse fraternity, authorities tightened prison controls and transferred inmates to other states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
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
What happened after you arrived at the jailhouse?
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
From the front of the jailhouse, the constable yawned noisily and began to whistle.
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 Vaknin, Samuel
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