jailhouse
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Time in the jailhouse for the “Mo Money Mo Problems” rapper has been shortened several times this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
During a hearing over that issue last month, prosecutors revealed jailhouse recordings in which Lavie bragged about exploiting Cloobeck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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
To convict him, the state relied on the testimony of a paid jailhouse informant, while no physical evidence suggested he was present at the crime scene.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
I asked, knowing that every jailhouse rule was eventually violated.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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 Samuel Vaknin
