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  • Early Monday, former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress will trade his prison-issue clothes for his own and walk out of the Oneida Correctional Facility—his home for the past 20 months and 14 days.

    Burress Exits Prison in Unfamiliar Territory Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

  • Early Monday, former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress will trade his prison-issue clothes for his own and walk out of the Oneida Correctional Facility—his home for the past 20 months and 14 days.

    Burress Exits Prison in Unfamiliar Territory Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

  • With his prison-issue eyeglasses, scrawny frame and boyish smile, Gibson looks much less of a menace than the prisoners stacking lunch trays just outside the glass-walled visitation room.

    Rasta inmates spend decade in isolation for dreadlock hair 2010

  • I brush twice a day using prison-issue paste, and my canines are turning yellow.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • I brush twice a day using prison-issue paste, and my canines are turning yellow.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • Along with six others thought equally hampered, I was segregated from the smart gifteds and put in a special classroom with a warden-like geometry teacher whose stiff canvas skirts seemed prison-issue.

    Eyes on the Prize 2009

  • Related Articles Riots Stoke British Ethnic Tensions U.K. Leader Pledges to Fight Gangs Mr. Onslow, who wore prison-issue grey sweats and looked sullen in the glass-slatted defendant pen, had been caught by police in the Zee & Co. clothing shop early Tuesday morning.

    Courts Strain to Process Big Group Of Diverse Defendants in London Paul Sonne 2011

  • Along with six others thought equally hampered, I was segregated from the smart gifteds and put in a special classroom with a warden-like geometry teacher whose stiff canvas skirts seemed prison-issue.

    Eyes on the Prize 2009

  • All prisoners are required to wear prison-issue slip-on sneakers.

    IMF chief under suicide watch at NYC jail 2011

  • He took off his prison-issue khaki pants and shirt, and pulled the jeans, sweatshirt and jacket that had been provided to him over his gangly frame.

    After prison, building a new life means more than just doing right Alex Halperin 2011

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