Glossary
- * Up
- This was preceded with a noun when it was time to go to an activity.
- "Gym up!" "Church up!" "Trays up!" "Visitation up!"
- 10A
- Unit 10 Block A. Protective custody but commonly known as the sex offender block.
- 190 Water
- Water that comes out a separate faucet at 190 degrees. Usually used to heat certain foods up like soup.
- 70 Bag
- When ordering commissary the biggest amount you can order is $70. Whenever you received a big bag on commissary day it was always assumed you got a 70 bag.
- A BLOCK!
- Yelled at the bubble to get a C.O, control or a sargent to look out of the A block window.
- Banged In
- Locked in your cell.
- "We're banged in because someone stole something from cell 113."
- Blues
- Worn by general population
- Brian's Class
- Sex offender group sessions held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Mandatory for some.
- Books
- An inmates money account.
- Butt Naked
- A soup with nothing on it except the seasoning packet.
- Bubble
- The control room that overlooked the four blocks on the unit. This is where C.Os and Sargents hang out and where control sits at a computer to control doors and lights.
- C.O
- Correctional Officer. In charge of overseeing inmate around the clock.
- Celly
- Commonly used in place of cellmate.
- Chemicals
- Bleach and diluted cleaning supplies deliver at random intervals to each block to clean with.
- Chi
- An individual version of a ChiChi
- ChiChi
- A chichi is soup in a bag. Chichis are mean to be shared with other inmates. The very first thing is to find a brand new trash bag. The runners usually sold trash bags for a soup. The base is soups. Most people put in 2 soups for themselves. After that you can be creative and add chili, cheese, sausage, pickles whatever is available. (Lamborghini had an in and used to add green peppers and onions). You throw all of this stuff in the bag and add 190 water. Tie the bag and wrap it in a towel to allow it to "cook." Then many usually used the brown coffee mugs to serve it into other's bowls.
- Commissary
- Commissary is expensive food inmates can order every week. Inmates are given 3 days to put their order in over the phone and then the food comes on the day designated for their unit.
- Commy
- Escort
- Greens and reds can't go places in the prison like blues so an escort accompanies them. Escorts are usually C.Os.
- Greens
- The color worn by Protective custody or anyone on the sex offender block.
- Hut
- Another word for cell.
- "I'm staying in my hut all day."
- Indigent Envelope
- Envelopes given to inmates every other week who don't have money on their books.
- Indigent Kit
- A kit given to people without money on their books including a comb, toothpaste, a toothbrush, shampoo, a washcloth and a VERY tiny container of the cheapest deodorant.
- Law Library
- Where inmates go for legal advice once a week.
- Meat
- Meat is any type of meat that can be added to a chichi.
- "Do you have any meat for the chichi?"
- P.C
- Protective custody a.k.a sex offenders
- P.O
- Reds
- Worn by people in maximum security. Murders and the like.
- Runner
- 4 designated inmates who clean the block, distribute trays and act as leaders of the block. The runners are the privileged (the Elite). The runners get to come out an hour before other inmates and get to go in an our after other inmates.
- S.O.S
- Shit on a shingle. Gravy and potatoes served during breakfast.
- Shabang
- The everything chip. Ordered second most behind soups. This stuff is like crack.
- Soup
- Over priced packs of Ramen noodles. Soup is used as currency in prison. Most transaction are made in soups. Seroquel cost 6 soups for a whole pill and 3 for half. People traded services such as washing someone's clothes for a few soups. Bone in chicken usually went for 2 soups just for the chicken and 3 soups for the entire tray. Same goes for sausage.
- Tray Slayer
- Someone who goes through the leftover food on other people's stacked trays.
- White Shirt
- A captain. People often asked to see a white shirt when the Sargents wouldn't do anything to help them. White shirts came on our unit ever other week.
