Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US prison) the solitary confinement cell, used for punishment.

1934		L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 36: Some of the men started yelling and throwing their plates in the air. The P.K. came along and hauled them off to the ‘bing’.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 315: Mrs McDonnell one days passes the bing (cramped little cell where guys are stuck in solitary confinement, as punishment).
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 28/1: Bing. (P) l. The punishment cells; cooler or segregation block.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970).
1973		K. Burkhart Women in Prison 443: Bing Solitary confinement.
1981		in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 90: When a young guy stays at home at night he says, ‘I binged it last night.’ This comes from the ‘bing’ or isolation cell, at Rikers [Island].
1992		Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 9: Bing Solitary confinement.
1994		P. Baker Blood Posse 311: I have to put you back in the Bing. This time you might have to stay down there permanently.
2000		Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Bing: Segregation unit. (NY).
2004		Bigga ‘The Bing’ 🎵 In a six-by-nine with a toilet seat – the bing.
2010		Guardian 6 Oct. 🌐 Lil Wayne will serve the last month of his jail sentence in solitary confinement [...] At Rikers Island prison, they call it ‘the Bing’.
2023		Rayman & Blau Riker’s 9: [I]t was just incredibly surreal to hear all the guys yelling out of the [(authors’ note) solitary unit called the] Bing.