What is "cellblock"

Usage examples of "cellblock".

A subjective viewpoint, tailored to fit what the drunk tank prisoners saw, the assaulters trying to flee the cellblock and liberate other inmates.

Kane stood sullen and silent while the lawman and the bounty hunter discussed how and when the reward would be paid, and then the deputy ushered Kane into the cellblock, opened a cell door, and motioned Kane inside.

Kane held out his hands and the deputy cut the rope that bound his wrists, then left the cellblock, whistling cheerfully.

In a minute he would stand up and walk into the cellblock and Kane would be there, behind bars, where he rightfully belonged.

Kane drew him like a magnet, and he often stood at the cellblock door, staring at the man who had killed Kathleen, remembering over and over again how he had held her, dying, in his arms.

Kane put a smile on his face as he heard the cellblock door swing open.

She opened the cellblock door, walked down the narrow aisle, and shoved the tray under the bars.

Larz in the abandoned cellblock, and they returned to the control booth together.

Jack picked out details, sensed Exley reaching, a war hero-not a weak sister in a cellblock full of rowdies.

The three had been moved to a minimum security cellblock to await requestioning and made their escape by the means of knotted-together bedsheets and a jump out a secondstory window.

Gray stepped out of the sterile cellblock and into a dark and verdant wonderland.

When I got there I found that I had been transferred out of the dormitory probably as an official precaution following the fight into Cellblock 4, third floor.

I was then released from deadlock status and lived for a time as a regular prisoner in Cellblock 1 on the fourth tier.

Cells would be set afire and, as the mattresses burned, acrid smoke filled the cellblock and added to the stifling 100-degree-plus atmosphere.

One memorable time, as a helpless prisoner below screamed under a beating by the guards, the entire cellblock all but mine packed two or more to a tiny, hot, ovenlike cell started shouting in rage.