sepcon n.— «But screws frisked Parny, and our letters—sealed in envelopes addressed to the ombudsman, which should have rendered them untouchable—were opened and never made it outside the prison walls. As punishment for our audacity...
choir n.— «Britain’s first convicted war criminal was sentenced to a year in prison and dismissed from the army Monday in connection with the death of an Iraqi hotel worker. The victim died of asphyxia after being held in stress positions...
bean shoot n.— «Only a few weeks shy of parole in 1995, Andre found himself confined to a cell with walls the color of Pepto-Bismol. He received his meals through a slit in the door known in prison parlance as a “bean shoot”;...
social cleansing n.— «Noam Chomsky argues that “Mumia’s case is symbolic of something much broader…The US prison system is simply class and race war…Mumia and other prisoners are the kind of people that get assassinated...
hooping n.— «While prison officials wouldn’t confirm, sources say the purported leader of the Galloway Boys, Tyshan Riley, who is facing multiple murder charges, was recently forced into segregation after officials found a six-inch knife...
black aspirin n.— «“Don’t you do that in front of the doctor!” he ordered the unconscious man, and I have little doubt that he would have kicked him hard and often—in short, given him what used to be called in prison warders’...