Jail
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A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of personsheld in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or withreference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.]This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton.Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] -- Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legallyor by violence.-- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol.-- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it,generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- calledalso hospital fever, and ship fever.-- Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jailwithin which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowedto go at large. Abbott.-- Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called alsoScandinavian lock.
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School.
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being confined to a certain area that usually smells like the combo of piss, shit, feet, ass, nuts, body odor, lysol, and mildew for a preset or indefinite amount of time.
Characteristics include a 64 sq ft room with a sliding door that contains several iron bars that is opened remotely. The room also contains a stainless [shitter](def #2) that hasn't been cleaned since 1989 and a bed that probably has been urinated over and jacked off on 1000s of times.
(so I've heard)
also [clink], [iron city], [lockdown], [tank], and [bighouse]
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A place where crips, bloods, and Pachucos are as happy as clams, but where crooked businessmen are nervous and should never bend over.
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-The house of the rapes.
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[Slavery] of the 21st century in the United States.
Major corporations would rather invest in building more prisons than education and/or employing more people with health benefits.
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A government owned facility that claims to either correct or teach wronged or uneducated individuals but in reality is a front that generates income for the state.
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the place where criminals are confined
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the place where all you do is [toss the salad]
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The place where you'll be grateful when someone kills you with an icepick that's made out of a sharpened tooth brush.
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While incarcerated it refers solitary confinement. (´the hole´)
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the gay's paradise.
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