Like surely they don’t allow prisoners to have razor blades right?
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Back in my day (20+ years ago) we got single blade safety razors. The kind that were, in theory, good for one use. But in practice, they’d be in pretty bad shape before finishing your face.
We would get two per week. We were supposed to be on a turn 1 in, receive 1 new system. Some of the guards were strict on that, others were not. I was fortunate, in that one of the guards I was on good terms with was a fellow “5 o’clock shadow by noon” guy. He’d bring me extra razors if I asked.
It was difficult, but possible to take them apart to get the blade. The thing was small, so was not very effective as a weapon. But they were fairly useful as a cutting tool for prison crafts. Which is an entirely different discussion.
We were able to buy low quality electric razors. They were prime targets for theft, though. I never bought one myself. I did try a friend’s, and found it entirely useless for my thick facial hair.
Finally, it was possible to get an electric shave pass. This would let you go to the barber shop and use the hair trimmers. Had to get one of those from medical. I got one at one point, which was nice. But then I went to another facility, where the doc said those passes were only for black guys who got bad ingrown hairs/razor bumps.
My facility did not allow beards, so shaving was mandatory. This may not have been the case everywhere, but I was in several facilities across my time, and shaving was mandatory in all of them.
The best shaving situations I had were near the end of my sentence. I went to a minimum security work camp, and then a work release program. We were able to select from the full spectrum of commercial razors.
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