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Person who criticises prison? (7)

Ross

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slammer

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'prison?' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for slammer that I've seen before include "Stir" , "one leaping into crowd" , "He noisily leaves the room" , "One pulling off lots of tricks" , "One severely criticises" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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