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Interview with Tara, Greg and Don

JM: What clothes could you have brought in to wear in the jail (underwear, socks, etc.)?
Tara: a bra, as long as it did not have an underwire, and the underwear you walked in with. All your other clothes, sans the bra were confiscated, bagged, and returned upon discharge.
Greg: Wow in the rehab side of prison I was able to use might wear my street clothes and my sneakers and stuff like that
Don: You can buy boxers and socks and you can buy shoes and bob barkers they are shower shoes

JM: If you had a set uniform, what did it look like? Please be specific about each piece of clothing issued to you.
Tara: brown shirt, short sleeves, buton down. Brown pants with elastic waste.3 pairs of white socks that were falling apart, and u3 pair underwear that was too big. If you had more than the alloted amount in your cell, security matrons would take it away and tell you you could only have a two day supply at any given time.
Greg: When you are the full tres inside you would have been on tour yellow one piece swimsuit that you had the where in exchange of your street clothes
Don: A bright yellow jump suit. And shower shoes. a pair of boxers. That is it and as long as u had regular sneakers on when u got locked up u can keep them.

JM: Were there any assigned clothes in high demand that an inmate should look for when getting clothing assigned?
Tara: clothes that FIT! and towels without stains and holes.men had sane, but green the goal was uniformity, and ill fitting clothes so as to not encourage neither the men or women from finding attractions to eah other.
Greg: Nothing in particular that I can recall that was in high demand
Don: No its all the same u just try to get a jumper that is not 5 sizes to big or to small

JM: Was the clothing different between men and women?
Tara: not really, it was polyster drab green
Greg: We all had to wear a one piece jumpsuit I think they might have been different colors
Don: yes women where a bright red jump suit

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