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"Doing the Elbow" - we spent a few minutes at IC University this morning, killing time before the "All Rise" with our first stop's in-custody defendants.  Prison/Jail Slang 101 was the topic.  Here's what we learned (pop quiz tomorrow, so pay attention):If you're doing life, you got "the Elbow", which can also be signified by holding your bent arm out at ear level, chicken wing fashion.  Nothing more needs to be said.If you have a pending case, you're "jammed up right now".If the State has a good case, "it ain't looking right for me".If you got the max, you got "bammed" or "slaughtered".If you have drugs to share or to sell, you say "I'm on point".(Dedicated to Scott Rothstein, and to all those judges and ASAs who send drug offenders to prison where they just end up doing more drugs; Also, did you know drugs can be taken intravenously via a sharpened, ink less plastic pen casing, together with a plunger made of saran wrapped toilet paper core?  The more you know ...continue to full post

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