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| Learn your prison lingo here |
| By Court TV |
| Published: 01/21/2002 |
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If you're planning to end up in prison soon, you might want to brush up on your lingo before the judge bangs his gavel: As a new boot you'll need to watch out for showerhawks, 5-Os, and snitches. And the last thing you'll want to order in the cafeteria is a tossed salad. Thankfully, there's A Prisoner's Dictionary, a site created in 1995 by Arnold Erickson as part of Prisonwall.org, a mega-site aimed at showing the reality of life on the inside. At this online dictionary, users can browse through hundreds of words and definitions, from oft-used terms such as homeboy (a friend or another prisoner from one's hometown or neighborhood) or crib (home on the street) that have filtered down into the vernacular to more obscure patois such as kitestringing (messages or bags of property sent from cell to cell via homemade string) and Dragon's Tongue (sliced corned beef from the cafeteria, boiled to an unexcelled toughness. But the site isn't really meant as a primer for budding convicts, Erickson said. It's intended to reflect the reality of life behind bars during a time when many important decisions about prisons in the U.S. are being pondered. Other sites with dictionaries includes one with The Correctional Officers Guide to prison lingo focused on helping law enforcement professionals break through the prison patois, while a site run by the British government is aimed at helping both prisoners and their families. |
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