cellblock in English

noun
1
a large single building or part of a complex subdivided into separate prison cells.
A hundred prisoners turned at once to the cell block 's single barred window, where a blur of color floated through the front gate, heading for the compound.
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1. Sexual advance on a female guard, inciting a fight in your cellblock.

2. A detailed portrait of the routine of cellblock life, "The Shawshank Redemption" might change a few minds about the usefulness of incarceration in terms of rehabilitation.

3. During World War II, in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a Bible was cautiously passed from one cellblock to another (though this was forbidden), and those who had access to it memorized portions to share with others.

4. The play, under Michael John Garces's taut direction, is a gritty depiction of the ritualistic world of gangs in barrios and prisons, and reminiscent in its theatrical Bloodiness and steaminess of "Oz," the late 1990s HBO cellblock drama.