The phrase "a stockade for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a structure or enclosure designed for a specific purpose, often related to security or confinement.
Example: "The settlers built a stockade for protection against potential attacks from wild animals."
Alternatives: "a fortification for" or "a barrier for".
Save for a Starbucks downstairs, it looked much the same as it did when he moved in, in 1959: a scruffy brick square laden with fire escapes, a stockade for the once hopeful.
But once inside, the prison for more than 2,000 Venezuelans and foreigners held largely for drug trafficking looks more like a Hugh Hefner-inspired fleshpot than a stockade for toughened smugglers.
All-male, deep in rural southwest Georgia, surrounded by double fences topped with razor wire, it feels more like a stockade for prisoners of war than like a civil detention center.
The other bank of the stream was open ground a gentle acclivity topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
Wall Street was once just a wall on a fort, actually a stockade built for the West India Company by the legendary Peter Stuyvesant, after whom one of New York's leading high schools is named.
The entire house and outbuildings were surrounded by a stockade of cedar logs.
The Hill (1965) -- At a military stockade for British soldiers in North Africa, five men, including outspoken prisoner Joe Roberts Sean Conneryy), endure the humiliations of a hard-nosed Sergeant Major (Harry Andrews) and his henchmen, who assign their charges various torturous duties.
Two hundred cows are crammed together in a stockade originally built for pigs.
But should a company be led off to the stockade for an errant line of code?
This is not Buchenwald, not a prison, or a stockade, doing sneaky, poorly designed work for nefarious motives!" In April, Matthew Meselson, a Harvard biologist, argued in congressional testimony that non-lethal chemical weapons would only make war more savage, because armies would use them to flush out enemies and then slaughter them.
Days later, after an FBI interrogation, he was confined for five months at a stockade in Montana.
