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Gate Fever 65: The use of prisoners as ‘trusties’ or ‘red bands’ is as old as prisons themselves.at red band (n.) under band, n.2
Gate Fever 65: The use of prisoners as ‘trusties’ or ‘red bands’ is as old as prisons themselves. Gate Fever 16: To blank [...] to ignore.at blank, v.2
Gate Fever 17: When I first heard the term used in this way – by an Assistant Governor speaking on the telephone to the leader of an escort party taking prisoners to London: ‘I’ll have the bodies ready for you’ – it gave me a shock.at body, n.
Gate Fever 115: I thought the best thing you can do, boyo, is go and find the police.at boyo, n.
Gate Fever 110: That evening the burglars spun Gilbert’s cell.at burglar, n.
Gate Fever 16: A bad screw is a dog and time spent in segregation – the block – where the worst dogs often are, is chokey.at chokey, n.
Gate Fever 95: Remember I’m still cuffed to two officers.at cuff, v.2
Gate Fever 114: I’ll kick the living daylights out of you!at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
Gate Fever 18: Gavin Price was brought in and placed in a dog box, one of a row of cubicles facing the officer’s desks.at dogbox, n.
Gate Fever 46: Someone is stirring a massive dollop of mushy peas with a wooden spoon.at dollop, n.
Gate Fever 98: I was threatened before the handcuffs were removed that if I got stroppy I would be DONE. This threat came from a police officer.at done, adj.
Gate Fever 171: It’s called ‘gate fever’ and there isn’t a prisoner approaching release who has not felt its grip.at gate fever (n.) under gate, n.
Gate Fever 16: A ghosting is when a con is moved out of the nick without warning, and the ghost train usually has several screws on board, sometimes dressed for action in MUFTI gear.at ghost-train (n.) under ghost, v.
Gate Fever 16: Some of the prison vocabulary is simple rhyming slang [...] jam roll: parole, for example.at jam roll, n.
Gate Fever 17: The orderlies can watch cricket and tennis during the idle moments between fetching cups of tea and kit for new arrivals.at kit, n.2
Gate Fever 18: The charge was deception: passing dud cheques, or kyting.at kite, v.
Gate Fever 30: Of the landings, the fours was the most fashionable, the lifers’ landing.at lifer, n.
Gate Fever 32: He didn’t trust the comparatively liberal regime [...] and he didn’t want any part of ‘their mister-nice-guy games’.at Mr Nice Guy (n.) under Mr, n.
Gate Fever 28: ‘Burning out’ and ‘turning over’ cells were familiar disturbances.at turn over, v.1
Gate Fever 16: A cell is a peter, from the lock manufacturer, Peter Chubb.at peter, n.3
Gate Fever 106: There is a little heroin [...] and some pills.at pill, n.
Gate Fever 30: Entrance to certain cells is by invitation only, usually if there is hashish – ‘puff’ – on offer.at puff, n.
Gate Fever 72: Greene on the twos will be having a party tonight. Puffers only invited.at puffer, n.2
Gate Fever 163: The vehicle we had was what in the trade they call a ‘ringer’ – it was a stolen vehicle that had another number plate put on it.at ringer, n.
Gate Fever 99: Mr Carrol gave me a quick summary of the routine for a prisoner being held ‘in seg’.at seg, n.2
Gate Fever 79: When the prison was fully silent, the sniffer dogs were led in.at sniffer, n.
Gate Fever 16: When a cell is raided it’s a spin and the screws involved are burglars.at spin, n.5
Gate Fever 109: The prisoner was ‘on his toes’ for several weeks before being arrested in London.at on one’s toes under toe, n.
Gate Fever 148: ‘Trusties’ are trusted prisoners – trusted, that is, not by the cons but the staff.at trusty, n.2
Gate Fever 33: By punching his hand through a window in frustration after an argument with a screw. ‘Windin’ me up.’.at wind up, v.
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