The Next 96
I stood there, watching with rest of the cons, while the Warden classified the next 96 inmates. After a while, I just got numb, watching girls searched, put in to ugly uniforms, then get their hair cut very short, clipped to the scalp or shaved bald.
Of all the haircuts, it seemed to me that the close security clip job, or “big house buzz-cut" was the ugliest. At least getting totally shaved bald could leave a girl looking halfway sexy if she had a nicely-shaped head. The buzz-cut made you look totally ugly! It was so rough looking.
Lots of the cons actually cried when they were getting their prison haircuts. I never realized most of these inmates even cared about how they looked in here, but it was obvious they did.
Two women’s haircuts that everyone paid attention to were Luz Aguilar and Pilar Ortiz. Luz was the head of the “Reinas Latina" gang, and all the Latinas were very loyal to her. She was a lifer in her late 30’s, very hot, with super long raven-colored hair. A lot of the cons called her “Gloria", because she looked a lot like the Colombian chick on “Modern Family".
Just like Cory, Luz got sent to max for a minimum of five years. When Ambrose shaved her head, Luz swore loudly in Spanish the whole time. She looked great with hair, but her head was shaped kind of funny, and she was a long way from a “bald beauty."
Pilar was to Luz like I was the Cory….prison girlfriend and soul mate. She was only 23 and in for 6 years for armed robbery. We called her “Girlfight" because she looked a lot like Michelle Rodriguez did in that movie….tough and mean! Warden Kelly gave her close security because of her crime and one fight in the yard…2 strikes. She assigned her to the license plate factory….considered the worst factory job because the guards told us it was very hot in there, and tedious work.
When Ambrose cut Pilar’s hair, Pilar just scowled….she was tough, and in her buzz cut, she looked even tougher. She flipped the bird to Warden Kelly as she was taken to the license plate factory, and immediately got a write-up and ½ strike.
When number 100 was done, they took us back to max to wait for the next day.
