Jailhouse means A building containing a prison. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like jail or gaol.
Jailhouse in a sentence
Jailhouse meaning
A building containing a prison.
Example types with jailhouse
Below, the same example sentences are grouped by length and sentence type:
An upgrade on the jailhouse’s work-release section was finished last year. (13 words)
Smith appeared on a jailhouse court feed for her first parole hearing on Nov. 20. (15 words)
Drug lord Tony Mokbel is suing the Victorian Government over a jailhouse stabbing that almost claimed his life. (18 words)
On Friday, prosecutors said Combs has been trying to dodge scrutiny of his jailhouse communications while orchestrating social media campaigns aimed at tainting the jury pool and trying to publicly leak materials he views are helpful to his case. (39 words)
Following a special prosecutor’s investigation into White and more than 100 other cases involving jailhouse informants, California became the first state to pass a so-called snitch law regulating the use of paid informants in court. (37 words)
In a new filing, Megan Thee Stallion’s attorneys revealed they obtained recordings of Lanez’s jailhouse calls as part of their cyberstalking lawsuit against a social media personality, per court reporter Meghann Cuniff. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
After the death of his mother is relayed to him, Luke finds solace in his bunk, with the rest of the prisoners seen behind him at the end of the jailhouse.
A modest establishment from outside appearances, The Jailhouse, which at capacity fits about 90 people, holds more within than it lets on.
An upgrade on the jailhouse’s work-release section was finished last year.
Drug lord Tony Mokbel is suing the Victorian Government over a jailhouse stabbing that almost claimed his life.
However, in the latest dramatic twist in the case, it emerged that Mr Allen confessed to the 2017 killings in a jailhouse phone call with his wife.
In his appeal, Diddi objected to the tribunal’s refusal to let him use a jailhouse interrogation of London broker Torzi, because Torzi never presented himself subsequently to be questioned during the trial.
In other recorded jailhouse phone calls, Eiley tells Martinez she's looking forward to giving him a hug and seems to acknowledge she knows the phone calls are being recorded.
Monday’s hearing follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from Aldrich to The Associated Press expressing remorse and the intention to face the consequences at this court hearing.
Silverman vividly described his weekly jailhouse visits to his now-notorious congregant, who was found guilty of murdering Oswald and who died in prison from lung cancer four years after the assassination.
Their relationship blossomed after the bar owner spent 90 days behind bars at WA's maximum security Hakea prison, which earned him the jailhouse nickname of 'border breacher'.
Following a special prosecutor’s investigation into White and more than 100 other cases involving jailhouse informants, California became the first state to pass a so-called snitch law regulating the use of paid informants in court.
In a new filing, Megan Thee Stallion’s attorneys revealed they obtained recordings of Lanez’s jailhouse calls as part of their cyberstalking lawsuit against a social media personality, per court reporter Meghann Cuniff.
In the past, Sanders has used the evidentiary hearing process to unmask the surreptitious use of jailhouse informants, leading to one of the largest criminal justice scandals in the nation.
I tell her that injustice has stalked these lands since 1262 and many a martyr suffered in the jailhouse for the greater good but she's already walking away from the car park.
On Friday, prosecutors said Combs has been trying to dodge scrutiny of his jailhouse communications while orchestrating social media campaigns aimed at tainting the jury pool and trying to publicly leak materials he views are helpful to his case.
Sentenced to 26 years to life in prison, Martinez spent the next three decades filing writs, appeals and petitions as a self-taught jailhouse lawyer.
Smith appeared on a jailhouse court feed for her first parole hearing on Nov. 20.
Stephen Smart's Dude Ranch includes a saloon, jailhouse, bank, haberdashery and even an undertakers at the rear of his semi-detached home in Sheppey, Kent.
Still images taken later from a jailhouse surveillance video show Iniguez making a phone call from a cell following his arrest.
The killer of a Belfast schoolboy is mounting a High Court challenge to any jailhouse monitoring of video-calls with members of his family.
Common combinations with jailhouse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the jailhouse 10×
- jailhouse phone 4×
- of jailhouse 4×
- in jailhouse 3×
- jailhouse informant 3×
- that jailhouse 3×
- jailhouse which 2×
- jailhouse informants 2×
- on jailhouse 2×
- from jailhouse 2×