Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. arrested.

1953

‘William Lee’ Junkie (1966) 145: I learned the new hipster vocabulary: ‘pot’ for weed, ‘twisted’ for busted.

2. serving time in jail.

1971

H.E. Roberts Third Ear n.p.: twisted v. to do time in the penitentiary; e.g. He twisted behind a hummer means he did the time but not the crime.