sally port
noun
1
: a gate or passage in a fortified place for use by troops making a sortie
2
: a secure entryway (as at a prison) that consists of a series of doors or gates
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Because county courts hear more serious crimes than city courts, the new building will have a sally port where sheriff’s prisoner transport vans can safely pull in away from the public entrance and take defendants to court. 
John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2022 On Gibson’s 11-point wish list was a large sally port, the area where inmates are brought after arrest, that could accommodate buses, medical vehicles and multiple police cars at the same time. Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 31 July 2022 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 Tubby, 26, was fatally shot by Green Bay Police Officer Erik O'Brien on Oct. 19, 2018, at the sally port of the Brown County Jail, where Tubby had been transported after an arrest. Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022 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 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 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 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 See More
John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2022 On Gibson’s 11-point wish list was a large sally port, the area where inmates are brought after arrest, that could accommodate buses, medical vehicles and multiple police cars at the same time. Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 31 July 2022 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 Tubby, 26, was fatally shot by Green Bay Police Officer Erik O'Brien on Oct. 19, 2018, at the sally port of the Brown County Jail, where Tubby had been transported after an arrest. Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022 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 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 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 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 See More Word History
First Known Use
1649, in the meaning defined at sense 1