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gladiator school
noun
a violent prison US, 1981- — Report to the Senate, California Senate Committee on Civil Disorder, p. 228, 1975
- I had been trained from a youth spent in a gladiator school for this. — Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast, p. 94, 1981
- — Maledicta, p. 266, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know it: the pessimism of prison life”
- The judge recanted his sentence suspension and hit him with five years in the California Youth Authority Facility at Soledad – the “Baby Joint” and "Gladiator School." — James Ellroy, Suicide Hill, p. 580, 1986
- Not that it matters. Joints all the same, gladiator schools. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 161, 1990
- Gladiator schools breed gang members because fighting and criminal activities are the primary lessons learned there. — William Bentley, Prison Slang, p. 4, 1992
- Kevin first heard stories about YA – “the gladiator school” – from older ’Hoodsters. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 92, 1993
- He called these prisons “gladiator schools.” He said prisons were places a man could prove his toughness. — Tookie Williams, Life in Prison, p. 13, 1998
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