The Prison Terminology Question

[Fishface]

Which one of these informal correctional terms is different, and how?

A) Bum Beef
B) Short Eyes
C) Cho-Mo
D) Chickenhawk

[Hari]

B. "Short Eyes" is the title of a play about the treatment of
pedophiles in prison.

[Fishface]

True, but that's a BZZT!

[K.A.]

A) Bum beef means a bad rap, a bad conviction. The other three have to do with child abuse, assuming that C) is actually Chi-Mo (child molester) rather than Cho-Mo, which I don't recognize.

[Fishface]

DING DING DING! CORRECT-A-MUNDO! "Cho-mo" is indeed also short for "child molester." I guess the cons like their rhymes.

[Rita]

Interesting....of course The Nurse is called 'Ratchette'

[K.A.]

Nurse Ratched was a character in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', played by Louise Fletcher in the film. but that was an insane asylum, not a prison. The book was written by Ken Kesey. The name could be a take-off on 'wretched'.

[Rita]

K.A. wrote: "Nurse Ratched was a character in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', played by Louise Fletcher in the film. but that was an insane asylum, not a prison. The book was written by Ken Kesey. The name c..."

K.A., that was quite a movie. I still think it is fitting for prison slang too.