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Prisoners in our jails are not allowed to wear belts for fear they will use them as weapons, or as instruments of suicide.(The Week)(sagging pants)(Brief article)
Prisoners in our jails are not allowed to wear belts for fear they will use them as weapons, or as instruments of suicide. In a deplorable case of "owning the insult," young black toughs have taken to wearing low-slung pants in honor of their jailed--unjustly, of course!--brethren. As fashions will, this fashion has been taken to extremes, so that is now common to see pants worn with the waistband below glute level, exposing several inches of (usually) colorful underwear. Now a backlash is developing, with town ordinances being passed to prohibit this unsightly fashion. Louisiana has led the way. In Delcambre, ...
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