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An acquaintance of mine recently made reference to "the hot box" while relating the story of a local man's arrest and subsequent imprisonment. "The hot box" was her unique way of referring to the jail in which the fellow had been detained. What are some other colorful (and not so colorful) terms/phrases that people use in this regard? Please include the provenance, if known.
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Jug
Quod
Clink
Pokey
Chokey
Inside
In stir
Porridge
yadda, yadda
Clink came from a prison of that name.
The rest - I could google 'em, but so can you!
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I heard that clink came originally from the sound of the prisoners chains clinking.
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clink2 (klngk)
n. Slang
A prison or a prison cell; a jail: spent the night in the clink.
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[After Clink, a district of London famous for its prison.]
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition
Copyright © 1996, 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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[After Clink, a district of London famous for its prison.]
and you can still visit it in Southwark, on the South bank, near the Globe theatre, Borough market, and next door to Vinopolis the wine tasting experience. My son has a flat (ok apartment) nr Tower Bridge and we walk past it often enough.
It surprises me that the prison was called after the area, not the other way round. The area is Southwark (Sutherk) and the prison was attached to the Bishop's palace.
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(Sutherk)Thanks. You anticipated my question. 
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In NY you get "sent up the river" (to Sing sing-- but if you want more about Sing sing-- look for a thread about places with double names...)
you get taken there in a "paddy wagon"-- (an ethic slur name for police wagons-- named come from the 1860-- when there was a large influx of Irish-- and to many got to drunk for local tastes-- they got hauled away in a police wagon that was soon nicknamed a ~.
Locally-- the "holding area" is the "Tombs"-- as in "I got arrested protesting and spent in the Tombs..."
Is Triangle still used in UK for a prison guard? Here the guards are often called "screws"
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Slammer or pretentious), durance vile.
In the Navy,small offence = the brig, big one Portsmouth. In the Army, small offence = guardhouse, big one Leavenworth.
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BTW, the phrase "The Tombs" originated because of the fantastic Egyptian Revival architecture of the NYC "Halls of Justice" (originally a courthouse, converted into a prison). The nickname has hung around even though the building is long gone. I'm looking online for a photo of the old building and will post a link if I find one. Egyptian Revival is a great style, but there are few good surviving examples aside from cemetery gates.
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Is Triangle still used in UK for a prison guard? Here the guards are often called "screws""screws" here as well. I haven't heard "Triangle" as a UK prison guard, but it brings back 40 year old memories of a prison (I think)folk song with the line "The old triangle keeps on calling" which I think referred to the metal triangle used to call the prisoners to roll-call and meals and generally rule their day. I am going to have to google. and found (3 cheers for google) http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/eire/oldtrian.htmRod
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