old lag

All designed to force the early retirement of old lags like me.

Even among the old lags this method of passing on information was used.

New members, a record 200 of them this year, don't yet know any better, but old lags should.

The older lagged behind, urging the younger forward to safety.

In prison, the old lag is the real authority.

An old lag once told me they send out their combined energy to find out.

The two old lags doing the raking were the only humans I had seen since leaving the administration building.

But old lags, those prisoners who remain inside with long sentences, have the advantage of time to plan.

New canvas uniforms were issued to the old lags to be worn only during the visit.

One or two of the old lags nodded.

They were both old lags and were sentenced each to ten years imprisonment.

Convict, particularly a long serving one (an old lag).

It's our best chance yet," said Donald, trying not to sound as if he was cross-examining an old lag.

AN old lag has vowed to go straight - because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station.

Anybody who doesn't know where Hall is I would suggest they tag themselves on to an old lag.

Well, I've heard of old lags wanting to die in jail, so I suppose it figures.

On the contrary, it is argued, such institutions simply breed crime because the novices learn from the old lags.

Had the old lag become, in the corny, hackneyed tradition, a do-gooder?

I didn't hold it against him; he hated Warden as bitterly as any old lag.

The old lags I was with at Wandsworth will never believe it.'

Some were strangers to him, others warders or old lags known to him from previous convictions.

No one wants to lose their car in a barn-fire, even if it's just an old lag you kept around to run errands when summer came.

I have a good memory for old lags, con men, outlaws and safecrackers.

An old lag would have done, but he still had a residue of polite behaviour in him, and I hadn't said he could go.