Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) the Los Angeles County Jail.

1966		Cohen & Murphy Burn 214: Every entrance to the ‘Glass House’ was covered by weaponry.
1972		J. Wambaugh Blue Knight 55: ‘I’m not drunk,’ he repeated all the way to the Glass House.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 152: They carried me to the Glass House, the old L.A. County jail.
1993		L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 162: Four of us juveniles were hauled to the Hall of Justice jail, known as The Glass House.
2002		J. Ellroy ‘Where I Get My Weird Shit’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 42: There’s the LAPD. I’m in their custody. I pass through drunk tanks and the ‘Glass House.’.