What does a ding mean in prison?

DING WING: A mental health ward. DIME: A 10-year prison sentence. DINNER AND A SHOW: When inmates eat in the food hall and watch other inmates fight and get pepper sprayed by prison staff.

What is brown in prison slang?

Brown – Either noun: dead (brown bread) or verb: perform anal sex on someone. “I browned him, didn’t I?” (Work out the aspect of the latter in your own time).

What is a wet cell in prison?

Areas holding higher security inmates are often equipped with wet cells. Correctional officers do not want to escort high-risk inmates to and from the toilet, as too much can go wrong in that journey from cell to toilet. For this reason, day spaces flanked with wet cells are seen as the easier model to supervise.

What is buddy for a day in jail?

NOM! Food is a really big deal in prison. It’s currency. You can trade some food with someone to have “buddy status” for a day. You can bet on football games and win some other guy’s egg salad sandwich.

What does holding the keys mean in prison?

Holds the keys: Whoever holds the keys is the shot caller for that prison yard. At your office, it could be the janitor, who literally holds the keys.

What is a ghost in prison?

noun. informal a prisoner, esp one held in US military capitivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged.

What is a Blinky?

1 : blinking, blink-eyed. 2 dialectal : slightly sour —used especially of milk or beer.

Why do inmates hang phone upside down?

Typical of, but not limited to, a Butt Naked Cell. Not slang exactly, but a sign to be obeyed. It the telephone has been hung up with the receiver upside-down, and if you are not the badass who put it that way, use it at your extreme peril. The main drug available to inmates in prisons today.

What is a VP wing in prison?

The vulnerable prisoner unit (VPU) – known as the “numbers” or “beast wing” by prisoners – houses inmates who would be at risk of attack if kept in the mainstream prison population.

What is D block in prison?

In prison days, D Block was the Treatment Unit for disciplinary cases. Prisoners there were locked in their cells for 24 hours a day. There are three tiers to D Block. The bottom tier had cells with no furniture, nothing. Sometimes the men were kept in total darkness.

What does MAC stand for in jail?

In California every institution is required by law to have a Mens’ Advisory Council (“MAC”).