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
While in custody, Yusuf was recorded in jailhouse calls instructing his brother and an associate to erase data from his phone to obstruct the investigation, prosecutors said.
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2025
Most of those reforms came through negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice, which found that, from 2007 to 2016, prosecutors and police systemically used jailhouse informants on defendants in violation of their right to have an attorney present.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
See footage of Keefe D’s jailhouse interview below.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 14 Mar. 2025
For those who are intrigued but not yet sold on the idea of a jailhouse glow-up, consider this: centuries ago, prisoners in this very spot would have given anything for a bit of self-care.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2025
Most of those reforms came through negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice, which found that, from 2007 to 2016, prosecutors and police systemically used jailhouse informants on defendants in violation of their right to have an attorney present.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
See footage of Keefe D’s jailhouse interview below.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 14 Mar. 2025
For those who are intrigued but not yet sold on the idea of a jailhouse glow-up, consider this: centuries ago, prisoners in this very spot would have given anything for a bit of self-care.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jailhouse
Noun
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However, on March 27, a paperwork error allowed Guzman to walk out of the Clayton County jail a free man.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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In the photo, Sada is dressed in an orange jail uniform while his expression consists of wide eyes and a stiff grin.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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His lawyers said Mahdi's original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or others who knew him and ignored the impact of months spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to lying to his FBI handler about the Biden family's ties to a Ukrainian energy company -- in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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The first penitentiaries weren’t built until the late 1700s, so more extreme sentences were deemed necessary to prevent discord.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
29 Mar. 2025
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At the time of the crime, Hoffman was 18 and has since spent much of his adult life at the penitentiary in rural southeast Louisiana, where he was executed Tuesday evening.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailhouse. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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