An inmate’s reputation among other prisoners.ģ1. An inmate’s information file or rap sheet. I got jigs: To keep look out or watch for officers, as in “I got jigs while you make that shank.”ģ0. Hold your mud: To resist informing or snitching even under threat of punishment or violence.Ģ8. Heat Wave: The attention brought to a group of inmates by the action of one or a few, as in “Joe and John got caught with contraband, and now the whole tier is going through a heat wave.”Ģ7. Grandma’s: Or Grandma’s House, a prison gang’s headquarters or meeting place, or the cell of the gang leader.Ģ6.
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Four piece or four-piece suit: A full set of restraints, composed of handcuffs, leg irons and waist chain, and security boxes to cover the restraints’ key holes.Ģ5. Ghetto Penthouse: The top tier of a cell block.Ģ4. Fire on the Line: A warning-“correctional officer in the area.”Ģ3. Duck: A correctional officer who reveals information about other officers or prison staff to inmates.Ģ2. Dry Snitching: To inform on another inmate indirectly by talking loudly about their actions or behaving suspiciously in front of correctional officers supply general information to officers without naming names.Ģ1. Doing the Dutch Or the “Dutch Act,” to commit suicide.Ģ0. Dipping in the Kool Aid: Attempting to enter a conversation the person has no place in or is not welcome in.ġ9. Ding Wing: A prison’s psychiatric unit.ġ8. Diesel Therapy: A lengthy bus trip or transfer to a far away facility, or even an incorrect destination, used as punishment or to get rid of troublesome inmates.ġ7. Dance on the blacktop: To get stabbed.ġ6. Cowboy spelled backwards, is yobwoc, or a “young, obnoxious, bastard we often con.”ġ5.
Chin Check: To punch another inmate in the jaw to see if he'll fight back.ġ4. Cell Warrior: An inmate that puts on a tough front or runs their mouth when locked in their cell, but is submissive or cowardly when interacting with other prisoners in the open.ġ3. Catch a ride: A request to a friend to get you high.ġ2.
Also, Cadillac Job, an easy or enjoyable inmate work assignment.ġ1.
Bum Beef: A false accusation/charge or wrongful conviction.ġ0. Buck Rogers Time: (early to mid 20th century) A parole or release date so far away that it's difficult to imagine.ĩ. Bug juice: Intoxicants or depressant drugs.Ĩ. Bug: A prison staff member considered untrustworthy or unreliable.ħ. A problem with another convict, as in “I have a beef with that guy in Block D.”Ħ. A criminal charge, as in “I caught a burglary beef in Philly.” 2. All Day and a Night: Life without parole.Ĥ. All Day: A life sentence, as in “I’m doin' all day.”Ģ. Here are some choice bits of prison lingo we’ve gathered from slang dictionaries, true crime stories, prisoners’ memoirs, and correctional officers.ġ. We’ve been just a little bit obsessed with old timey and subcultural slang here at the Floss as of late, and today we’re going to mine one of the richest sources for weird slang and code-talk: criminals.
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