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"I got very excited, I took my shirt off, and I scratched myself with my little prison name tag.
Ms. Seltzer provided a prison name and prison identification number, and a copy editor confirmed that the prison existed.
John V. Chervokas, the town supervisor, said that Sing Sing is the most recognized prison name in the world, and noted that tourists from as far away as Holland have stopped in town hoping to get a glimpse of the "Big House".
Mr Mandela called him by his old prison name Mokgomane, a word in the local Pedi language which means "my boy".
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Her latest novel, "The Big Girls," set in a New York women's prison named Sloatsburg, is very much in the latter vein.
Mr. Giuliani appointed Mr. Kerik to a senior position in the Correction Department, where he went on to be commissioner, and even have a prison named after him in downtown Manhattan.
No reform-minded notions here, no verbal gestures toward rehabilitation or behavior modification, no benefactors, mayors, or role models to lend the place their family names, but then who in his right mind would want a prison named after him anyway?
The new norm also keeps our so-called "enemy combatants" in an offshore prison named Guantanamo and refuses their human rights and due process.
"Undisputed" is ruled by the Code of the West, with the prison's name, Sweetwater, sounding like the name of an ironically named dusty cow town in a John Ford picture.
As we know, there are serial killers who are right now banged up in prison, not naming any names obviously -- I wouldn't want to give them that kind of satisfaction -- but we know there are serial killers who are mad as march hares who still have large followings.
In 1988, I was the first western journalist admitted to KGB headquarters at Moscow's Lubyanka Prison, a name so dreaded by Muscovites they called it by the name of a nearby toy store, "Detsky Mir".
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