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Recent Examples of jailhouse The premise is a grabber: A mechanic believes he’s run into the cruel jailhouse captor from his past and takes matters into his own hands. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2025 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. Sean Neumann, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Brown is being detained at a jailhouse in Columbia, South Carolina. Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 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 See All Example Sentences for jailhouse
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Noun
  • The man was released from jail a few days after his arrest on a $1,500 personal recognizance bond while his case is pending, court records show.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell weeks after his 2019 arrest.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The other defendant was handed 10 years in prison for spying on behalf of France, five years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and 17 years of imprisonment for assisting Israeli intelligence services.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Co-directed by filmmaker Toia Bonino and incarcerated Marcos Joubert, Do or Die is a rare, intimate portrait of prison life and a meditation on cinema itself—filmed entirely on a phone behind bars.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If found guilty of a level 5 felony, Sanchez could be imprisoned anywhere from one to six years at an Indiana penitentiary and fined up to $10,000, according to the Indiana Code.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And Jack Henry Abbott, everyone was getting into his corner and trying to promote the idea that his art was reason enough for him to be released from the penitentiary.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailhouse. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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