Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sturrabin n.

a prison.

1856		H. Mayhew Great World of London II 82: The cant or thieves’ names for several London prisons or ‘sturbons’ [...] is as follows:- Pentonville Prison ... The Model.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 87: sturbin State prison.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 231: STURABAN, a prison.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 10/1: He thought himself very lucky to get off with a ‘drag’ (three months in ‘sturbin’).
1873		Sl. Dict. 361: They are both to be topped at Springfield Sturabin on Tuesday next.
1881		Newcastle Courant 2 Sept. 6/5: Sam has a horror of sturabins ever since the screws put him in chokey for taking a bit of snout offered him by another gloak when he thought no one was looking.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues VII 21/1: Sturiben (or Sturibin) [...] (thieves’) A prison; spec. (American) a State prison.
1905		Farmer Dict. of Sl. and Colloq. Eng. 84/1: A petty prison [...] sturrrabin.
1906		A. McCormick Tinkler-Gypsies of Galloway 258: Can you jal adré the staripen?