SLAMMERS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

slammers

noun

plural of slammer

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody the Mafia capo ultimately landed in the slammer on a conviction of income tax evasion

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Recent Examples of slammers In New Orleans, one of the earliest slammers was a jovial fellow named Damian Labeaud, who, starting in 2010, recruited passengers from the local community with the promise of insurance payouts, then took them hunting on the freeway for a truck. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 And the Padres, after adding at the trade deadline, have their assortment of door slammers all locked up for the foreseeable future. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025

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In 2019, the New York City Council voted to close the island's facilities and replace them with four smaller jails throughout the five boroughs by August 2027.

— Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 8 Oct. 2026
Reports also describe people in prisons and jails around the country being routinely beaten, among other abuse.

— Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

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Fewer than half of the 170,000 inmates released from California prisons between 2015 and 2019 found jobs, and many of those jobs were temporary, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

— Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2026
For several years, people in custody, advocates and local media have sounded the alarm about the dangers posed by extreme temperatures in Pennsylvania’s state prisons.

— Jaquelyn Jahn, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

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