Catchword: bus therapy

Filed under: Language, English, Register, Slang, Subject, Crime & Prisons

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: “I could be put on the ‘Merry-Go-Round,’” he writes. “In federal prisons, when a prisoner is en route, he’s not allowed phone calls or mail privileges. So what is sometimes done is that they put a fellow like me on a bus and drop him off at isolation for a few weeks at every prison they stop at. I’ve seen convicts caught up in that for nearly two years…Old convicts call it ‘bus therapy.’”

Article or Document Title:
“Prison Transfers Author of Critical Articles”

Author:
Bill Gordon

Article, document, publication, web site:
San Francisco Chronicle

Publishing location:
California

Date of publication:
July 1, 1988

Page number:
A1

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