Haircuts for inmates

Shave a head of hair to prevent escape?

Scalping season has begun. 

The California Department of Corrections (CDC) is battling crime by taking a prisoner's metaphorical scalp. A kinder, gentler sort of head-hunting. Seems a hairy-headed inmate recently escaped and eluded capture by shaving his beard and long hair so he wouldn't resemble his prison I.D.

Traditional jail togs making a comeback

The old-fashioned black-and-white striped jail uniforms are the wave of the future. If you want to be an inmate, you're going to look like one, too. It's been proven these are easier to see on closed circuit TVs, especially black-and-white monitors. Some of the jail uniforms that are solid colors aren't very distinctive. If someone were to escape, they can blend in fairly well. (With these) there is no mistake that they're an inmate.

Bootcamp for young offenders

Chris a Florida inmate from Tomoka Correctional Institute write: In Florida Prison your first day you are forced to have your head shaven. If you refuse you will go to confinement until you change your mind or until you are held down and forced to give up your hair.

Bootcamp instructors

seek to instill discipline, work ethic and self-confidence by the administration of a strictly regimented, work-intensive, para-military system. From the moment inmates arrive at the boot camp,   Officers work to get their attention and change attitudes.

Bootcamp inmates

are required to exercise, drill, work and attend school.

Hard work for inmates

An important part of the boot camp experience is work. Inmates are put to work on manual labor projects for public agencies. They establish a work ethic, develop new skills, work as a team and learn the value of work. An Officer leads a squad of trainees on a work project eight hours each day.

Chains for shaved inmates