Pokey
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early 20th century: alteration of pogey (an early sense being ‘hostel for the needy’), perhaps influenced by poky.
etymonline
pokey (n.)
"jail," by 1919, American English slang, also poky, pogey, of uncertain origin; Barnhart says perhaps altered from pogie "poorhouse" (1891), which itself is of unknown origin.
