Word: jumpsuits
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...MUCH FOR THE JUMPSUIT...
...siblings sit in front of a tiny, oval-shaped camera. Their mom is visible onscreen--dressed in a blue prison-issue jumpsuit. When the monitor suddenly goes dark, a counselor jiggles the mouse to make the picture reappear. Chevas asks his mom when she is coming home. She flashes three fingers, the number of months until her release. He marks off the days on a calendar. "It's really hard, being that I want to see them and touch them," Barrett says. "But if it weren't for this program, I wouldn't be able to see them...
...that included drug abuse and threatening his family with a knife), and as a consequence may lose his permanent-resident status. After 26 years in the U.S., he is waiting to find out whether he will be sent back to Mexico, roughly 15 miles away. Fiddling with the red jumpsuit that identifies him as a high-risk detainee, he explains that he was off his medication when he assaulted his father, adding, "I hear voices, and it's hard." De Santiago is a paranoid schizophrenic...
Tyrone Harris, 23, appearing in shackles and orange jumpsuit for sentencing on a probation violation, begged mercy because he wanted to take care of his girlfriend and baby boy. Powell wondered if wedding plans figured into all this love and devotion...
...only possession--the business card from his lawyer--fits in the front shirt pocket of his jumpsuit...