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In this book, you may find several terms that you may not be familiar with. This glossary is for you to utilize if you don’t wish to Google them. You may find additional words at the link provided below. Happy reading.

AB - Aryan Brotherhood aka “brotherhood”

Boss - Slang for prison guard

Bunkie - Cellmate

Cage - Prison cell

Cellie - Cellmate

Chomo - Child Molester

Chow - Meal

C/O (CO) - Correctional Officer

Cowboy - New correctional officer

Ding wing - Psyche Ward

Dinner & a show - Meal time with inmates fighting and getting pepper sprayed by officers.

Drop/Dropped - When a guard forcefully tackles an inmate to restrain them

EMS - Emergency Services

Fresh meat - New prisoners

Frequent flier - Someone regularly incarcerated

Gen pop - General population

Green light - Permission to kill on sight

Hoe check - Communal beating to see if an inmate will retaliate/stand up for themselves

Hole (the) - Seg aka solitary confinement

House - Prison cell

IA - “Internal affairs”

Jody - Man sleeping with another inmate’s woman outside of prison

Juice card - Inmates influence with officers or other prisoners

June bug - Inmate slaved to other prisoners

Kitty kitty - Inmate slang for female officer

Lockdown - Act where guards lock inmates in their cells till a disturbance calms down.

Meat wagon - Hospital ambulance, takes sick or dead inmates out of the prison

Molly whopped - Fight/hit/beat someone up

On the count - Inmates in line for headcount

PC - Protective Custody

Programmer - Inmate who spends most of their time in class trying to grow

Quiet time - Period of time when the halls/rec area are cleared out and inmates head to their cells for the night.

Ratchette - Nurse

Rec - Short for recreation

Robocop - Guard who writes up every infraction

Shakedown - Act where guards toss a prisoner’s cell looking for contraband

Shiv/Shank - Homemade knife

Shot caller - Leader of a gang/high ranking prisoner

Slop - Prison food - loose casserole,tomato-based. Insulting to cooks/supervisors.

Vic - Victim

Yard - Fenced in area for outdoor recreation

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