jailhouse

Alfonsi has reported on a range of subjects, including the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Covid superspreader event, the jailhouse death of Jeffrey Epstein and student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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

The use of jailhouse informants is not an uncommon, or illegal, tactic and tool used by law enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

Jurors told the court one person was holding out because they believed the jailhouse tapes should not have been permitted as evidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

It is the prosecutor, far more than any other criminal justice official, who holds the keys to the jailhouse door.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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