How to Use sally port in a Sentence
sally port
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At the new courthouse, the sally port is enclosed by iron fence and no longer open to public view.
—Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022
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The sally port where prisoners are transported to and from the court isn’t big enough.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2020
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The truck, with Mercado somehow hanging on, then approached the first of two gates at a sally port.
—Dave Altimari, courant.com, 14 Jan. 2018
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Boyd, Hill said, stole the police vehicle, crashed through the sally port gate and led lawmen on a short pursuit.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 11 Feb. 2021
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Parked in the underground sally port, the arresting officer stepped out of the SUV.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
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The media tour began in the same place where buses drop off migrants at the sally port of the converted warehouse.
—Emanuella Grinberg and Geneva Sands, CNN, 28 June 2019
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Talk of adding a sally port for a more secure transport of arrestees dates back several years.
—Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
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Arquillo took those drugs in the jail’s sally port, and jail staff nearby did not notice, Synenberg said.
—Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2021
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Horton said Gadsden police were taking Boyd back to jail and his restraints had been moved in sally port.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 19 Feb. 2021
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Platten testified that Mills moved the intake screening process from the sally port, where inmates first enter the jail, to the seventh floor.
—Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2021
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Puckett had arrived there six months earlier, handcuffed and driven in through a sally port gate around the side.
—Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2021
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Bergman, who’d been arrested that evening at a downtown hotel, was in the backseat of a police SUV parked in the underground sally port.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
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Tallman then took a MetroHealth IT worker and a couple of carts to the seventh floor, unplugged the intake unit’s computers and brought them back down to the sally port.
—Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2021
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Herrin ran through an exit door, down a flight of stairs and exited the hospital on the sally port, on the north side of Harborview along Jefferson Street.
—Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2018
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Once the garage/sally port is constructed, Kaminski said enclosing the front entrance to the station will be the remaining project.
—Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
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While at police headquarters, he was left in the back of a patrol SUV parked in the sally port as an officer was filling out booking paperwork.
—Fox News, 9 July 2020
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Area law enforcement agencies are assisting with the search for a man who escaped from the Porter County Jail's sally port late Monday morning.
—Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2018
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The sheriff's office released video Tuesday morning of the sally port, which is a garage between the outdoors and the jail, showing Maldonado fleeing.
—Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2018
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They were all held inside the station, leaving a converted sally port and warehouse empty, according to his report.
—Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 18 July 2019
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Several officers confirmed that the inmates were walked naked from the recreation sally port attached to a cuff retainer or rope and other restraint devices.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 5 Oct. 2017
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Some of the recommendations for the police department, including the addition of a sally port and improvements to male and female locker rooms, had been made to the city more than a decade ago by architects.
—Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
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At the Wood courthouse, inmates were visible to the public when they were brought to court because transport vehicles descended into an open sally port behind the courthouse.
—Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022
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The last one, more than a decade ago, involved a 17-year California Highway Patrol veteran who was seen in surveillance video pushing a drunken-driving suspect in a jail sally port.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2019
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Due to her hysterics and county protocol, Orange police officers were instructed to put her back in the cruiser and drop her off just outside the county jail’s sally port, where she was released and given her phone back to call for a ride.
—Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 14 May 2022
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A few months later, with cameras in tow, Bruce was guided into a footman’s vestibule at Windsor, down through a trap door hidden under rugs in front of the fireplace and into an ancient sally port, basically a secret escape route from the castle.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
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In the single-lane sally port, for example, vehicles are constantly hitting the overhead doors, and a recent inspection found concrete deterioration, the department said.
—Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 31 July 2022
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