Examples of jailhouse in a Sentence
received a tip from an informant inside the county jailhouse
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The judge's ruling said incriminating statements were illegally collected during a jailhouse interview with Fohrenkam.
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Wcco Staff, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
During a jailhouse call to his adult daughter on Sunday, Solomon allegedly asked about the firearms, according to the complaint.
—ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
But a trove of unreleased jailhouse video and detailed internal investigative reports that current and former sheriff’s employees provided to Brown and the Desert Sun told a different story.
—Christopher Damien, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
But the conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered because prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that a group of jailhouse informants was illegally used to garner incriminating statements by Smith.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
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Wcco Staff, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
During a jailhouse call to his adult daughter on Sunday, Solomon allegedly asked about the firearms, according to the complaint.
—ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
But a trove of unreleased jailhouse video and detailed internal investigative reports that current and former sheriff’s employees provided to Brown and the Desert Sun told a different story.
—Christopher Damien, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
But the conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered because prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that a group of jailhouse informants was illegally used to garner incriminating statements by Smith.
—Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jailhouse. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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jailhouse
noun
jail·house
ˈjāl-ˌhau̇s 
: jail
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