jailhouses
- plural of jailhouse.
Example Sentences
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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
Because the truth is, we see inequality virtually everywhere—in studies and statistics; in schoolhouses, and courthouses, and jailhouses; and, yes, on the streets of Baltimore and Ferguson and elsewhere.
From Time ● May 26, 2015
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
