(prison slang) A whitefemaleinmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prisongang.
1998, Barbara A. Owen, "In the Mix": Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prision, page 155:I have another roommate who is a white girl, she is a featherwood. So she got this thing in the mail from her pen pal that had peckerwood written in it. And this black girl wanted to look at her mail, which she had no business doing ...
2007, Sandra Coleman, From Housewife and Mother to Convict, page 100:"I don't know, Teri asked me if I was a featherwood and I said no because I don't have wings ..." ... "Girl do you know what a featherwood is?" Tai asked. "I thought it was a bird." "God you're so innocent." Dolores stated.
2010, Kenneth E. Hartman, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars, page 68:I've been visiting a couple of featherwoods, all bad tattoos and twisted intentions. Seeing Anita for the first time without a half-inch-thick plate of shatterproof Plexiglas between us (the county jail allows only noncontact visits), ...
