jailwear

Noun

jailwear (uncountable)

1. Clothes to be worn by inmates of a jail.
   • For clothes, it’s jailwear or nothing at Riverside, unless you have the cash “on your books” to pick up a Hanes t-shirt or a pair of blue gym shorts from the canteen. The standard teal-green jumpsuit—never, ever to be worn unbuttoned—is only required for recreation and visitors.1999 September, Sally Chew, chapter 28, in A Fatal Lie: A True Story of Betrayal and Murder in the New South, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 185
   • Being on the high-profile ward meant getting special jailwear. Everyone on Murderers’ Row was forced to wear a bright red prison gown—the same color gown that was reserved for those charged with child molestation. Our red gowns alerted the rest of the prisoners to our “special” status, […]2003, Susan McDougal with Pat Harris, “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Sybil Brand”, in The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk: Why I Refused to Testify Against the Clintons & What I Learned in Jail, New York...