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Adjudication: Occurs after prisoners break
rules. A governor-grade officer will decide
upon the appropiate punishment in a
formal hearing with the prisoner present.

A.P.S.: Accelerated Promotion Scheme.
This is a fast-track opportunity for
graduates, like Helen stewart, to achieve
governor grade, usually within five years.

Association: A period of time in which
the inmates may integrate for recreation.

Basic: Prisoners are graded under the
Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme.
The entry level is Basic- which allows
minimal freedom of movement, visits,
income and facilities. In Larkhall,
prisoners on the Basic regime are housed
on the ground floor: the 'Ones', often in
shared cells.

Block: Segregation unit for inmates
who break rules.

Canteen: The prison shop, where
prisoners can buy allowed items of
food, toiletries, phone cards etc. With
their personal spends and wages.

C.C.R.C.: Criminal Cases Review
Commission.

Closed Visits: A security measure
requiring the prisoner to meet her
visitors behind a screen and under
supervision.

Compact: A deal struck between
prisoners and officers, which is
usually beneficial to both.

Crutching: Smuggling in contraband,
often drugs, by hiding it internally.

Decrutching: The act- often violent-
of forcibly removing the item that
someone has hidden internally.

The Dorm: The four-bunk double
cell on G1 landing. should be avoided
at all costs, as it has previously
housed the ill-fated Rachel Hicks,
Zandra Plackett and Renee Williams.

D.S.T.: Dedicated Search Team.
Special group of officers who are
trained to search for drugs and other
contraband. Also known as the
'Swoop Squad' or 'Squat Team'.

Enhanced: Enhanced regime incorporates single cells with better furnishings, mostly on the top landing: the 'Threes'. Inmates also have greater freedom of movement, can recieve more visits and get more personal spends. Or, as Nikki puts it, 'a few extra quid and a duvet'.

Girls: Officers' term for all women prisoners, irrespective of age.

G.O.A.D.: Written shorthand for 'Good Order And Discipline'.

Jellies: Temazepam, an anti-depressant drug.

M.D.T.: Mandatory Drugs Testing. Prisoners are selected at random, usually by computer, to provide a urine sample. Tests are also required on reception, or if there is 'reasonable suspician'. generally referred to as 'the piss test'.

Red Bands: Trusted prisoners given the better jobs within the prison- a privilage often abused.

Rule 43: One of the Prison Rules, under which an unruly inmate is removed to the segregation unit for maintenance of Good Order and Discipline.

Servery: Where the prisoners are served their meals. Also a great place for a fight or secret liaison.

Standard: Most inmates are on this intermediate regime and are usually housed on the second landing: the 'Twos'.

Strips: Punishment on the Block, where a prisoner's clothing is removed and replaced by a garment made of untearable paper- that 'blue dress thing' as modelled by Nikki.

Swinger: A rope made of knotted sheets or clothing, often with plastic bag attached, swung from one cell window to another to convey illicit items.

V.O.: Visiting Order. Prisoners must send a V.O. out to their intended visitors.