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Part Two subsections are followed by a "Kite Out," prison slang for a note passed between prisoners, but here addressed to young people outside prison "to help them towards better paths" (p. 5). The collection opens with Larson's introduction discussing the concept of "Prison City" and ...
I will have a series of drivers who deliver for me. My drivers aren't going to know who I am. How does that happen? Let's say I know you and I trust you. Ok, I'm giving the drugs to you and then you know your cousin and you trust him. You give him the drugs and he ...
He used a kid called "The Bank Clerk" to move money."I got a call to pick up the dough from a shop in Utting Avenue, Liverpool," said Scanlon."The person in the shop handed over the bag and said: 'Here's the bangers.' (slang for money.) I was told it was a million. I ...
The script is full of street slang, which Ashley patiently translates for me. A zoot is 'a joint', a neek is 'a boffin' and to merk someone is, 'Well, there's no nice way to put it, it's to kill someone.' Ashley's character is furiously unwilling to pay taxes, and makes his...