I've recently become enthralled in the show "Lockup" on MSNBC. On the most recent episode that I watched, there were two phrases I wanted to remember: one for its rhyme and humor, and the other for its irony.
The first phrase refers to a program within the prison that they were examining in which the prisoners basically go through rehab. The ones who are addicted to drugs and decide that they would like to better themselves go into a prison-sponsored program to get rid of their addiction. The officers who ran the program called it Hug-A-Thug.
The second phrase interested me because of the way it was written. At San Quentin Penitentiary, the television show briefly examined death row. At this particular institution, the officers referred to death row as "Condemned Row," and while that may not be necessarily unusual in terms of language, it was written in a font identical to typical gang tattoos, the curved, almost calligraphic letters and all capitalized. Therefore, its irony interested me more than necessarily its innovation.
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