Graybar Hotel

Graybar Hotel

slang Prison. If you keep getting into trouble like this, you're going to end up in the Graybar Hotel.
See also: hotel
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Graybar Hotel

and Graystone College
n. a jail; a prison. The two cops had to spend two years in Graybar Hotel with some of the inmates they had caught over the past few years. How long were you at the old Graystone College?
See also: hotel
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hotel
  • Graystone
  • check into
  • book in
  • check out from (something)
  • check out of (something)
  • fetch up at
  • fetch up at (some place)
  • come it over
  • come it over (one)
References in periodicals archive
When The Graybar Hotel came out last summer, he was praised as a gifted stylist whose stories illuminated the often overlooked lives of prisoners.
A sweet deal gone sour
"The Graybar Hotel" details Dawkins' life behind bars, and has subsequently led him to earn praise from (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/books/review/curtis-dawkins-graybar-hotel.html) The New York Times , among many others. 
Michigan Seeks To Collect Earnings From Prisoner's Acclaimed Book
Now he's back in the Graybar Hotel, facing several new charges including violating the existing no-contact order he'd been previously served with.
Create your own "get out of jail free" card
To tell you the truth, I'm quite looking forward to life at the Graybar Hotel, because at least there a form of rough justice will apply.
When global turns into local
Her screenprinted "Graybar Hotel" juxtaposes starkly colored scenes of a women's prison against a background inspired by a lighthearted nursery wallpaper.
Rolling out wallpaper: artists are using off-the-wall themes and techniques to design wallpapers that demand attention
They got the definite impression she had nowhere else to go--at least nowhere with the same benefits as a stay in the GrayBar Hotel.
So, how bad is the economy?
She drew 10 years in the GrayBar Hotel, and could a got a lot more.
LOL, Danny
Jailers in Middletown, Ky., are well acquainted with recidivism, but their inmates generally don't return to the GrayBar Hotel until at least late in the evening of the day of their release--"celebrating," you know.
Enjoy your free time?
Yup, that's what Colin McReadie did, and instead of gettin' fired--maybe--he definitely got the boot, plus 28 months in the GrayBar Hotel.
Too many pints of brain-lite!
The West Tennessee Detention Facility (WTDF) made a video for California convicts, telling them all about WTDF's "larger and cleaner jail cells, 79 TV channels, including ESPN, and views of peaceful cow pastures." Painting a vivid picture of the good life in the GrayBar Hotel, they also advertised their "Dorm of the Week Program." Every week the inmates of a selected wellbehaved "dorm" can stay up all night watching movies and eating cheeseburgers and pizza.
Pardon the wine, rocco, it's a bit tepid!
Instead of a possible overnighter in the local GrayBar Hotel, he was now lookin' at a lengthy period of employment at the state's license plate factory.
Busted again: the old tattooed toes clue
Under Holland's "graduated sentencing" guideline, which increases a convict's prison time according to the monetary loss, he was looking at something like 10 to 20 years in Zee Graybar Hotel. Then he introduced evidence of what he paid for his black market firearm.
Two quarters short of a full meter
When his fellow inmates are tellin' their tall tales of daring crimes that got 'em sent to the GrayBar Hotel, we think James Sharp, formerly of Lewisville, Ark., and now of the State Penitentiary, is going to be shrinking back in the corner and hoping nobody asks, "What about you, Big Jim?"
Here's granny-the-victim being victimized! Sweet!