| Allg. |
dungeon; lockup; black hole; icebox; security housing (Andy); disciplinary cell (RomanDM); solitary confinement cell (in prison Val_Ships); seclusion room (Lavrov); solitary confinement ("Solitary confinement is colloquially referred to in American English as "the hotbox", "the hole", "lockdown", "punk city", "SCU" (Solitary Confinement Unit), "AdSeg" (Administrative Segregation), the "SHU" (pronounced "shoe") – an acronym for "special housing unit" or "security housing unit", or "the pound"; in British English as "the block" or "the cooler"; and in Canada it is known as the Special Handling Unit" eviv); blockhouse (Desperado777); segregation cell, seg cell, SHU cell, the hole (jodrey); quod; prison cell usu. dark and cold used for special punishment |
