how does shaving in prison work?

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Like surely they don’t allow prisoners to have razor blades right?

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i remember one ‘shaving night.’ i was a guard, not an inmate. i gave all my guys a plastic razor, one by one, marking each of their names on a list. after they shaved, they had to return their razors, showing them to me before they put them in a secured waste disposal bin and i marked their name again. the razors were made so that it was impossible to get the blade out without breaking the shaver into at least three pieces. one guy allegedly put his shaver in the bin without showing it to me first, and ugh! (not paying attention for a second). i had to call all the other guards in to ‘shake down’ the whole unit. strip searches, looking inside every mattress, shoe, towel, etc. we found lots of stuff, but no broken razor. the inmate wasn’t a bad dude and i don’t think he did it on purpose, but it was a hell of a night. being a jail guard (aka screw) is not very fun. i wasn’t really cut out to be a corrections officer. i got out after a year, thank god.

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