as in jail
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
received a tip from an informant inside the county jailhouse
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Recent Examples of jailhouse
The American Civil Liberties Union and a group of community activists have dropped their 2018 lawsuit accusing the Orange County Sheriff’s Department of continuing to illegally use jailhouse informants.
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Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
See footage of Keefe D’s jailhouse interview below.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Colby also frequently discusses his mother’s case on his YouTube channel, including sharing his reaction to his testimony and their jailhouse phone call.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
That transformation from jailhouse to hotel fundamentally changed how people interacted with the building.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
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Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
See footage of Keefe D’s jailhouse interview below.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Colby also frequently discusses his mother’s case on his YouTube channel, including sharing his reaction to his testimony and their jailhouse phone call.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
That transformation from jailhouse to hotel fundamentally changed how people interacted with the building.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jailhouse
Noun
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In that case, a man incarcerated in a local jail filed a complaint with CLERB alleging that deputies damaged his personal property and mishandled legal documents during a cell search.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2025
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Kerik, an Army veteran, rose to the pinnacle of law enforcement before a fall so steep that even a city jail named after him was renamed.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
30 May 2025
Noun
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He was convicted again about a decade later and sentenced to more time in prison.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
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But Hoover will remain in prison, serving a 200-year sentence for his state court conviction for murder.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
Noun
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He was freed on parole from the Terre Haute, Indiana, federal penitentiary on Nov. 30, 1948, after serving 32 months of his five-year prison sentence.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
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However, he was sent back to the high-security prison in 1962 and stayed there until he was transferred to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
6 May 2025
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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailhouse. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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