cell block

Or cell·block

[sel-blok]

noun

1. a unit of a prison consisting of a number of cells.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cell block¹

cell + block

Example Sentences

To tackle the problem, anti-drone grills are being fitted over cell block windows throughout the prison estate.

From BBC

We both reside in a cell block called East Wing.

From Slate

After Downstate Correctional Facility closed in 2022, the massive job of holding and transporting hundreds of incarcerated people to prisons across the state was crammed into a single roach-and-rat-infested cell block in Green Haven, a maximum-security prison located in a rural town called Stormville.

From Slate

The cell block was freezing, he told me, and the constant fear of roaches crawling inside his ears caused him not only to keep his clothes and boots on but also to keep his lights on.

From Slate

When you’d arrive, they’d unload your property bags off the bus, gave you a decent mattress, bedsheets, and a pillow case, and porters inside the cell block would bring you cleaning supplies.

From Slate