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Prepping for Jail
What to Pack
The few items allowed need to be chosen carefully. Some suggestions:
Toiletries
According to the Associated Press, L.A. County gives all Lynwood inmates a kit containing the following toiletries: "a toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, soap, a comb, deodorant, shampoo and shaving implements." Odds are the soap isn't branded Lancôme.Beauty Products
Inmates can purchase, the A.P. reports, a standard-issue makeup kit from the commissary. It contains a compact, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, and a package of hair color. Again, odds are this stuff isn't Lancôme. And Frédéric Fekkai isn't available to apply the color.Stationery
You'll never miss the BlackBerry! Corrections officers have your communications needs in mind and provide inmates with a pencil, writing paper, envelopes and postage stamps. Here's how to write Paris a letter.Photos
Inmates are permitted to bring up to five photographs. Which means Paris can bring four pics of herself, plus one of Tinkerbell. Oh, and no posters; photos gotta be 4-by-6 inches or smaller.Books and magazines
| To help pass the time and improve the mind, L.A. County encourages Lynwood residents to bring or have sent to them three books or magazines each week. The Bible: Required reading for the incarcerated, according to countless tales of inmates finding God and turning their lives around. And Paris seems to have a head start: She was recently spotted attending church with the good book tucked under her arm. |
The Alchemist, by Paul Coelho: This best-selling novel, about a shepherd boy who discovers great (inner and material) wealth, is ideal prison reading for Paris: It's a simple story told like a fairy tale, and it has a Big Message that should satisfy her current quest for personal growth.
Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson: Ha-ha, just kidding.
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud: Literary critics gushed over this 2006 novel about three college friends on the cusp of 30 and their lives in Manhattan in the months leading up to September 11, 2001. But don't be put off, Paris, by such highbrow praise. This book is totally readable and offers plenty of food for thought.
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