Victor Senior spent over 15 years in max prison and talks about a bird bath cleaning himself during lockdown.Full episode here https://youtu.be/AhkGdlqOp10. Our prison slang list is straight from our incarcerated friends. One of the best lists out there.
Period. What's a prison pocket? Clink Street, London.
Site of Clink Prison, one of England's oldest prisons and origin of the slang "In Clink". Now home to a museum of the prison, the remains of Winchester Palace and a Starbucks. Prison slang is an argot used primarily by criminals and detainees in correctional institutions.
It is a form of anti-language. [1] Many of the terms deal with criminal behavior, incarcerated life. In this context, his jewellery is a sort of "get-out-jail" token.
"Jockers" Incarcerated sexual predators who prey on weaker inmates, called "punks." "Jointman" Prison slang for an inmate in prison who behaves like a guard "Jug-up" Prison slang for "meal-time." "Killing your number" Prison slang for serving one's time or getting out on parole. We breathe in stale air stinking of dirty mops. If we shower or even "bird bath" without permission, we can lose privileges, see our prison stay extended or have parole denied.
Refers to taking a bath using one's sink in the cell rather than going to the shower. There can be several reasons for choosing to take a bird bath, but safety is the most common. Trans persons may choose to take a bird bath for both physical safety and to avoid harassment and embarrassment in the common showers.
During COVID-19, people were let out of their cells every three days for either a shower or phone call, or both if you're quick. bird bath n.- «Other prisoners have to stand in the toilet stalls and take what is called a prison "bird-bath," using a cup or an empty bottle to pour water over their heads from several small sinks. A bird-bath is a small hollow place outside filled with water where birds can come when they are dusty to bath.
Because he's in jail, he's a jail bird (general term for someone in jail), so instead of taking a bath, he jokingly says he's taking a bird bath. The remarkable part is the I take me a bird bath. Many euphemisms exist for a state or federal prison stay-and once inside, inmates have to adopt a whole new jargon to navigate incarcerated life.