Examples of jailhouse in a Sentence
received a tip from an informant inside the county jailhouse
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Investigators had documented the secret jailhouse deals with MS-13 and the official attempts to cover them up.
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T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 June 2025
Police then began investigating the jailhouse phone calls from Scott.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
But in 2022, the state found prosecutors' handwritten notes in a banker's box, which Drummond said showed that Sneed told the state he was given lithium after seeing a jailhouse psychiatrist and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 June 2025
The inmate claiming responsibility for the jailhouse stabbing of Tory Lanez has come forward with a motive behind the shocking attack, which left the music star hospitalized after sustaining fourteen stab wounds.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 27 May 2025
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T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 June 2025
Police then began investigating the jailhouse phone calls from Scott.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
But in 2022, the state found prosecutors' handwritten notes in a banker's box, which Drummond said showed that Sneed told the state he was given lithium after seeing a jailhouse psychiatrist and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 June 2025
The inmate claiming responsibility for the jailhouse stabbing of Tory Lanez has come forward with a motive behind the shocking attack, which left the music star hospitalized after sustaining fourteen stab wounds.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 27 May 2025
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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jailhouse. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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jailhouse
noun
jail·house
ˈjāl-ˌhau̇s 
: jail
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