# Haircuts in prison?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haircuts-in-prison/48837>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 7, 2001, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haircuts-in-prison/48837 "2001-01-07T07:18:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haircuts-in-prison/48837/21 "2012-12-19T21:37:49Z")

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> [@VOW](#):
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> Some facilities offer rehabilitation, and a common job training is cosmetology/barbering…

I once saw a TV documetary on a women’s prison that had a full-service salon as part of a vocational program in it. IIRC it serviced both inmantes and guards/prison staff.

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**Author:** ![Jaded\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jaded\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaded_Goddess)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haircuts-in-prison/48837/22 "2012-12-20T04:02:42Z")

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> [@Perderabo](#):
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> What about fingernails and toenails? Do the barbers do manicures and pedicures? Or do the inmates get nail clippers?

Not something I usually tell, but I was in county jail once. Nail clippers could be “checked out” to inmates. Actually some of the women in my cell used them to trim each others hair.

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