as in penitentiary
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
prisoners of war confined in a stockade
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Recent Examples of stockade
Some suggest the logs' close location means they were used as a type of stockade.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024
Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
Those posts formed the outline of the stockade that, at one time, may have housed some 1,200 British prisoners of war.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
Fines date back to the Middle Ages, when feudal lords would let people pay to get out of their stockades – an alternative to being in custody.
—Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024
Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
Those posts formed the outline of the stockade that, at one time, may have housed some 1,200 British prisoners of war.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
Fines date back to the Middle Ages, when feudal lords would let people pay to get out of their stockades – an alternative to being in custody.
—Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stockade
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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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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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The government held both Padilla and al-Marri in a Navy brig to keep them out of civilian custody.Brian Michael Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
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Rare photos showcase the quirky spot where mock battles were staged while female patrons were abducted and held in the brig to see who could scream the loudest — highly inappropriate by today’s standards.Pat Saperstein, Variety, 28 June 2024
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“Stockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stockade. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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