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Interview with Shawanda Miller, Jeremy, Chuck, Charles and Josh

JM: What clothes could you have brought in to wear in the jail (underwear, socks, etc.)?
Shawanda Miller: Uniforms - pants, shirt, t-shirt, socks, undies, bra, shorts, sweatshirt. Always had to have uniform on unless going to gym or walking to take shower. Couldn't walk around in your shorts all day.
Jeremy: pinstrips! I think workers wore whites.
Chuck: Regular jumpsuit, onesy, pre-trial was blue, max was orange, sentencing was green and work was yellow.
Charles: none. they take all of your clothes when you come in and give you a uniform.
Josh: You don't get to bring any of your own clothes to jail. Everybody wears the same thing boxers, socks, blue gym shorts, and a jumper. When you fart the fart travels through your jumper straight to your face.

JM: If you had a set uniform, what did it look like? Please be specific about each piece of clothing issued to you.
Shawanda Miller: Yes. It used to be blue for pre-sentence and green for sentenced. Not sure if they still have it that way, or just 1 color. Orange for different ones from other counties or maybe federal inmates not sure.
Jeremy: Jumpsuits! They were clean and so were the socks and underwears
Chuck: That was it depending on what your status was.
Charles: spandex waist pants pull over shirt underwear and socks 2 towels and a smaller face towel t-shirts slipper sandles that also were used as shower slippers. Sucked only having one change of clothes a week
Josh: The uniform everybody in my unit was wearing looked like a concentration camp style green and white striped where's waldo looking jumper. The socks where grey. They shirt was white. The boxers where white. But all anybody could see was the stupid green and white jumpers. Everybody has to have their jumpers on when not in their cell.

JM: Were there any assigned clothes in high demand that an inmate should look for when getting clothing assigned?
Shawanda Miller: Generally not. Because everything was assigned and pre-folded with your name on it. When you first get booked in, the guard will ask what size you where.
Jeremy: nope
Chuck: No. None at all.
Charles: no everybody was given the same shit and it was all uncomfortable.
Josh: There wasn't anything special about the clothes that where assigned. I ordered a long sleeve shirt off of the commissary to keep me from freezing.

JM: Was the clothing different between men and women?
Shawanda Miller: No all the uniforms same
Jeremy: didnt look
Chuck: They had older green pants and shirt not a onsey.
Charles: I don't know because I never seen women
Josh: The women wore blue sweatpants and a blue sweatshirt.

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