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The Other Side of the Wall: A Prisoner’s Dictionary choose

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[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 12:01: Used when a prisoner is discharged. ‘I got a 12:01 tonight.’ (LA).
at 12:01, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 12/12: To serve the entire sentence without parole. The end of a penal term.
at 12/12, v.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 13 1/2: The sum total of 12 jurors, one judge, and one half-chance, often featured in tattoos.
at 13 ½, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Code 21: Masturbation (TX, from the TDC offense code).
at code 21, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 459: Burglary or intrusive behavior, from Cal. Penal Code section 459. As in ‘Don’t 459 my convo’.
at 459, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 6-5: Correctional officer. Used as a warning when an officer is approaching.
at 6-5, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 5150: A person needing mental health treatment, based upon the California Welfare and Institutions Code section for civil commitment. Other states will use different numbers, such as ‘730’ in New York.
at 5150, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 5150: A person needing mental health treatment, based upon the California Welfare and Institutions Code section for civil commitment. Other states will use different numbers, such as ‘730’ in New York.
at 730, adj.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 K-9 Corrections officer (canine).
at K-9, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 911: Warning that a correctional officer is coming.
at 911, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 AC: Aryan Circle, a white prison gang found in some states. This designation is not seen in California. More commonly in California, this designation would refer to the ‘Adjustment Center’.
at A.C., n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 AW: Associate Warden. In some western prisons, this may refer to the Aryan Warrior gang.
at A.W., n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Aggie: A long handled hoe. (In Texas, field force work squads are referred to as Hoe squads, usually by their squad number such as 1-hoe, 2-hoe.).
at aggie, n.1
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Agua: Spanish word used to warn other prisoners that an officer is making the rounds.
at agua!, excl.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Alphabet: A sentence so long that it cannot be characterized by numbers. (VA).
at alphabet, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Be Farts and Cell Partners: Beans and franks. (archaic).
at be farts and cell partners, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Ass Betting: Gambling without any funds or means of paying back one’s loses.
at ass betting (n.) under ass, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Ass Out: A prisoner who has does not have anything coming or who has disrespected officers to the point where they do not give him anything.
at ass-out (n.) under ass, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Playing on Ass: Gambling without money – if a prisoner loses ‘it’s his ass.’.
at play on ass under ass, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Attitude Adjustment: The need for drugs. Also, a physical act by officers, including use by electric shock (taser, stun gun).
at attitude adjustment (n.) under attitude, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 BGF: The Black Guerrilla Family, an African-American prison gang that originated as a revolutionary organization influenced by George Jackson.
at B.G.F., n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Badge: A correctional officer.
at badge, n.1
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Bam-Bam: The mental health ward or an inmate who is a mental health patient. (MI).
at bam-bam, n.2
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Banger: A knife. Also called a burner or a shank.
at banger, n.5
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Cross Bar Hilton: Prison (archaic).
at cross-bar hotel, n.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Beat Your Feet: Order by an officer for a prisoner to move out of an area. (TX).
at beat feet (it) (v.) under beat, v.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Beat-out: Lost something some way or another, usually conned out of it, through deception.
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Beef: A disciplinary charge, as to ‘catch a beef’.
at beef, n.2
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Billies: White men.
at billy, n.4
[US] Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Bing: Segregation unit. (NY).
at bing, n.2
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