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
The notes indicated that Sneed told the prosecutor he was given lithium after seeing a jailhouse psychiatrist and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, according to court papers.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
One key moment Rand reported happened in the jailhouse that did make the cut in the Netflix series: Menendez giving Simpson advice in episode eight’s final seconds to take a plea deal in his case.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
But the stepfather continues to maintain his innocence, again denying his involvement during a jailhouse interview with WTKR.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024
In 2014, he was elected Los Angeles County sheriff, soon after longtime Sheriff Lee Baca retired under a cloud of scandals that included the federal indictment of sheriff’s officials for allegations ranging from assaulting jail inmates to hiding a jailhouse informant from the FBI.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
One key moment Rand reported happened in the jailhouse that did make the cut in the Netflix series: Menendez giving Simpson advice in episode eight’s final seconds to take a plea deal in his case.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
But the stepfather continues to maintain his innocence, again denying his involvement during a jailhouse interview with WTKR.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024
In 2014, he was elected Los Angeles County sheriff, soon after longtime Sheriff Lee Baca retired under a cloud of scandals that included the federal indictment of sheriff’s officials for allegations ranging from assaulting jail inmates to hiding a jailhouse informant from the FBI.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jailhouse
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Doing so can result in a $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail.Nate Chute, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Smollett spent less than a week in jail after an Illinois appeals court granted an emergency motion by his attorneys to delay his sentence and grant him bail until their appeal is resolved, CNN previously reported.Megan Thomas, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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Another suspect, Gary Howard Oliva, who spent eight years in prison on child pornography charges, was first named as a person of interest in a 2002 episode of the CBS show 48 Hours Investigates.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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The judge in the case reduced that sentence to eight years in prison and a $15,100 fine — with three of those eight years to be served in home detention — with Kennedy also ordered to serve five years of probation and undergo random drug testing and mental health counseling.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2024
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From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California.Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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But there’s a war out there in Tulsa, whose lucrative drug trade is not being overseen by the usual cartel, but by a native tribe chief (Graham Greene) who runs the Indian Brotherhood from a state penitentiary.Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailhouse. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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