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jailhouse

[jeyl-hous] / ˈdʒeɪlˌhaʊs /




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“I did not write the book; a ghostwriter wrote that book,” Davis said in a recent jailhouse interview.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

In and out of detention for years, he was also, in Ms. Colloff’s words, “one of the most prolific, and most effective, jailhouse witnesses in American history.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Scott Sanders, a former longtime Orange County public defender, is credited with uncovering the use of jailhouse informants during the Dekraii case.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

But the "motion to suppress" reveals for the first time his version of what led to the alleged jailhouse confession.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2025

It was a long shot to send a jailhouse appeal, but from where I was sitting I had nothing to play but long shots.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

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 Samuel Vaknin




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