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
Morgan shot and killed Lenny Scott, who was a jailhouse guard while Morgan was previously behind bars and had exposed the affair Morgan was having with a female guard after discovering a secret cellphone in his cell during a search, according to prosecutors with the CPS.
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Brown is being detained at a jailhouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Austin Robert Drummond, the 28-year-old suspect in the July 29 killings of four members of a family in Tennessee, spoke publicly for the first time in a recorded jailhouse call with a reporter.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Old Stone Jail Originally a jailhouse for the courthouse in Shepherdsville, the Old Stone Jail was built in 1891 and has survived the test of time since.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Brown is being detained at a jailhouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Austin Robert Drummond, the 28-year-old suspect in the July 29 killings of four members of a family in Tennessee, spoke publicly for the first time in a recorded jailhouse call with a reporter.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Old Stone Jail Originally a jailhouse for the courthouse in Shepherdsville, the Old Stone Jail was built in 1891 and has survived the test of time since.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jailhouse
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North Little Rock police officer Tommy Norman, whose social media presence attracted millions of followers before his Saturday arrest on a domestic battery count, was released from jail Monday morning after posting a $350 bond, court records showed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Scott was convicted of murder and sent to prison.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Barr was attorney general when Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in 2019, a death that was later deemed a suicide.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
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Arcángela and Serafina remain in the women’s penitentiary, continuing to operate illicit businesses and accumulating wealth, but without hope of freedom.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Prisoners look out of their cell at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4 in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailhouse. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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