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140a. Political economy pt. I: The Social Order of the Underworld

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Inmates Develop Slang With Specific Meanings That Help Define Their Status

Inmates develop slang with precise meanings that help define the relationship among inmates. A naive or stupid inmate and a child molester carry strong connotations because they are the most despised classes of prison inmates. When people say certain words in prison punk bitch lame things like that it's an automatic fighting word so that's just basicallyBasically this is another one of these things that surely in the moment i mean i'm speaking about this now behind a desk you know in a completely different context but these actual events of course they're going to be uh pretty visceral and ugly and and emotional um.

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