What is "jailhouse"

Usage examples of "jailhouse".

A blast of overhead fluorescence interrupted the usual jailhouse gloom and leaked into the hall through a narrow plateglass panel in the door meant to allow observation by patrolling guards.

This is why jailhouse tatts always look like they were done by sadistic children on rainy afternoons.

All sane reasoning would lead me to think that, if that first soldier hadn't been hit, this could all have ended peacefully at the jailhouse with a lot of lawyers arguing, charges brought, countersuits filed.

His shirt was open, exposing his jailhouse tattoos and blisters as he sat there stinking of body odor.

Maybe you ought to think about ff like that a little more often, 'fore you start haulin' hard-rkin' bucks off to the jailhouse for no reason at all.

The other end of the wire would be connected to the remote-control detonating device at the jailhouse.

He'd always been pretty vain about his looks, had to admit it now with the studio lights gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching in a deprecating sort of way but they'd never brought him anything but trouble and now suddenly here was a place for them, a place for all his anger and strength and talent if you'd call it that and he'd never have made it without the others, the other prisoners when he heard their applause he knew he had something, one buddy in the program in particular kind of a jailhouse lawyer in there for something that would curl your hair tried to help him out on his appeal, told him if you're black in America you're always playing a part, no way around it just got to find the right part to play where you aren't going to take your bows in a cell block and that did it, Oscar?

Something of a jailhouse lawyer in prison, he was preparing his own appeals to seek an early parole.

Once you get to a real prison with real jailhouse lawyers you will find out how bad you got screwed.

Quinn Bass was a local boy from the large cattle clan on the Kissimmee River, and the hired guns Quinn rode with led a crowd of rowdies and Bass relatives to storm the new jailhouse and lynch "the stranger"—more in the spirit of hell-raising than justice, since even his partners never denied that ol' Quinn asked for what it turned out he had coming.

Except maybe them motor-sickle crooks, an' I ain't sure about them, except I found a couple of sleepin' bags on the jailhouse bunks I couldn't account fer.