jailhouse

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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

Alarmed by the growing jailhouse fraternity, authorities tightened prison controls and transferred inmates to other states.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

We’d pass below it every time they transported me between the jailhouse and the courthouse.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 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

Most jailhouse gossip quickly makes its way to the inmates, but officers were uniformly insistent about keeping them ignorant about the story of the Playhouse Four, as the group had come to be known.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover