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Interview with Milles, Preston, Lauren, Rosa and Dallas

JM: What clothes could you have brought in to wear in the jail (underwear, socks, etc.)?
Milles: white t shirts and jail issue cotton pants and over shirt. we were also issued socks and underwear. our shoes were taken and we were issued flip flop sandals.
Preston: In jail you couldn`t buy any kind of clothes, but in prison, the only clothing inmates were allowed to buy were tennis shoes that was in a catalog. None of our own clothes could be worn. Only prison issued clothes could be worn.
Lauren: You are not allowed to have clothing brought to you. You are issued clothing And get to swap put clothes every couple days.
Rosa: I can only bring like medical shit like medical shoes but no street clothes ok
Dallas: You can't bring any clothes in to the jail, they issue you your clothing options.

JM: If you had a set uniform, what did it look like? Please be specific about each piece of clothing issued to you.
Milles: white t shirts and jail issue cotton pants and over shirt. we were also issued socks and underwear. our shoes were taken and we were issued flip flop sandals.
Preston: I/We had to wear prison issued dark blue straight legged jeans with an orange round shooting target on the back. A short sleeve white tee shirt, used off-white underwear, and a pair of old dull white socks.
Lauren: Wekl underwear or boxers that said multnomah county, white socks, blue scrubs shirt and pants, and ugly brown orange rubber sandal And a hospital like inmate bracelet with inmates photo and id number.
Rosa: Pink t shirt. Blue too blue bottoms pink undies pink socks and sandals that's it I didn't get anything else but that lots of pink
Dallas: The uniform included a pink t shirt, blue over shirt, blue pants, pink boxers, pink socks, and sandals. Nothing else aside from that. No specialty items.

JM: Were there any assigned clothes in high demand that an inmate should look for when getting clothing assigned?
Milles: any thing extra large or bigger was taken first.no difference in the clothes between men and women
Preston: Inmates would try to get a pair of jeans that would fit. Sometimes we'd get jeans that were too large or too small.
Lauren: Not necessarily, i mean we were all definitely picky about out socks and underwear but that's about it.
Rosa: No nothing like that that sounds crazy we don't have that
Dallas: No, there wasn't anything I can recall that was in high demand except maybe new clothes.

JM: Was the clothing different between men and women?
Milles: no difference in the clothes between men and women. at least none i noticed.
Preston: Women would wear the same clothing as men.
Lauren: Nope it was pretty much all the same except for underwear I'd imagine.
Rosa: Not really about the same
Dallas: It didn't vary much besides the underwear.

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