More on "punk"

[Grant Barrett]

 From the same article:

"An officer 'hits the deuces'--button on his hand-held radio--which
summons a hundred guards like ants to a picnic."

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/feat_2005-04-28.cfm

Any ideas? Is the guard merely keying channel 2 on his radio? Calling
a "code 2"?

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:26, James Smith wrote:

> “Cell Survivor, A former inmate breaks down the myths
> and realities of prison life”
> by John Bowers.
>
> Salt Lake City Weekly, April 28, 2005
>
> There are two words every convict immediately learns
> to remove from his vocabulary: “Punk” and “Bitch.”
> However cute or funny they sound rolling off the lips
> of a favorite comic or movie star, calling someone
> your homosexual slave is an instant declaration of war
> and invitation to a fight, your beating or your own
> murder.  These two terms are not used in the same way
> as they are in the free world.  It can be elementary
> school name-calling on a deadly level.
>
>
> (NOTE from J Smith: it wasn't clear in the SL Weekly
> if this was an original piece for SL Weekly or picked
> up from another source.)
>
>
>
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