Examples of lockup in a Sentence
the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups
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She was sprung early from federal lockup in July 2023, after serving 1 year, 9 months, and 20 days..
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Hudson pleaded guilty to first-degree battery for the shooting in June 2022 and was sentenced to a stint in a juvenile lockup followed by five years on probation.
—John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
At least nine of the 25 arrested have landed in immigration detention — scattered across the country from a crowded lockup in Miami to a facility in a sleepy Texas railway town to a confinement in a Pacific Northwest port city overlooked by Mount Rainier.
—Hannah Critchfield, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
Three more inmates who escaped from New Orleans’ main lockup in one of Louisiana’s biggest jailbreaks ever have been captured, leaving two at large.
—Jana Kasperkevic, NBC news, 27 May 2025
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Hudson pleaded guilty to first-degree battery for the shooting in June 2022 and was sentenced to a stint in a juvenile lockup followed by five years on probation.
—John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
At least nine of the 25 arrested have landed in immigration detention — scattered across the country from a crowded lockup in Miami to a facility in a sleepy Texas railway town to a confinement in a Pacific Northwest port city overlooked by Mount Rainier.
—Hannah Critchfield, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
Three more inmates who escaped from New Orleans’ main lockup in one of Louisiana’s biggest jailbreaks ever have been captured, leaving two at large.
—Jana Kasperkevic, NBC news, 27 May 2025
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“Lockup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lockup. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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lockup
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