jailhouse

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jailhouse

/ˈd͡ʒeɪlˌhaʊs/ US

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From jail + house.

noun jailhouses

A building containing a prison. “SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.

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@misc{jailhouse_2026,
  title = {jailhouse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jailhouse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}