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  • The Clink is the brainchild of prison officer Kathleen Ruby and professional chef Alberto Crisci, who coaches offenders on how to make adventurous dishes like avocado sorbet.

    A Taste of Prison Food 2009

  • Casting a hasty glance at the old and ruinous prison belonging to the liberty of the Bishop of Winchester (whose palace formerly adjoined the river), called the Clink, which gave its name to the street, along which he walked: and noticing, with some uneasiness, the melancholy manner in which the wind whistled through its barred casements, the carpenter followed his companion down an opening to the right, and presently arrived at the water-side.

    Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • The iPhone app, called Clink-Clink, is intended to tackle both those perceptions.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • a day or two in "Clink" -- or, in other words, guard-room.

    Into the Jaws of Death Jack O'Brien

  • This is confinement in the "Clink," without blankets, getting water, bully beef, and biscuits for rations and doing all the dirty work that can be found.

    Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey 1923

  • "Clink," or the Bishop of Winchester's Liberty, was not interfered with.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912

  • The nod, now at its seventh edition, means "Clink" will get support from the Europa Cinemas exhibitors network, who commit themselves to extend the length of its screen run and also pitch in some extra promotion coin.

    Variety.com 2010

  • The nod, now at its seventh edition, means "Clink" will get support from the Europa Cinemas exhibitors network, who commit themselves to extend the length of its screen run and also pitch in some extra promotion coin.

    Variety.com 2010

  • The Bishop's estates came to be known as the Liberty of the Clink - "Clink" because the Manor House straddled this underground prison, and "Liberty" because the Manor lay outside the City's jurisdiction.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • The mayor of London and its aldermen complain incessantly that because they have no authority there, Southwark, the Clink, and Paris Gardens—to name the most colorful neighborhoods—are riotous places given over to masterless men, thieves, whoremongers, and the like.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

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