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Prison slang is an argot used primarily by criminals and detainees in correctional institutions. It is a form of anti-language . [ 1 ] Many of the terms deal with criminal behavior, incarcerated life, legal cases, street life, and different types of inmates.
Diesel therapy is slang for prison transportation in the United States in which prisoners are shackled and then transported for days or weeks; the term refers to the diesel fuel used in prisoner transport vehicles. [1] It has been alleged that some inmates are deliberately sent to incorrect destinations as an exercise of diesel therapy. [2]
Nutraloaf, also known as meal loaf, prison loaf, disciplinary loaf, food loaf, lockup loaf, confinement loaf, seg loaf, grue or special management meal, [1] is food served in prisons in the United States, and formerly in Canada, [2] to inmates who have misbehaved, abused food, or have inflicted harm upon themselves or others. [3]
The "trusty system" (sometimes incorrectly called "trustee system") was a penitentiary system of discipline and security enforced in parts of the United States until the 1980s, in which designated inmates were given various privileges, abilities, and responsibilities not available to all inmates. [1]
In 1989, one of their hotels, a midtown Manhattan property called LeMarquis, opened some of its rooms to federal inmates. Slattery and Horn called the new company Esmor, Inc. They laid out ambitious expansion goals that included running a variety of facilities that would house federal prisoners, undocumented immigrants and juvenile delinquents.
An argot (English: / ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ /; from French argot 'slang') is a language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, occupation, or hobby, in which sense it overlaps with jargon.
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