jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everything s sanitized and clean. many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. lance and darion, my 6-year-old and my 2-year-old. that s why i m here, so i can legally provide what they need. it s what you make it. with every situation, it s just what you put into it, you get out of it. you put nothing in, you get nothing out. although many of the inmates here have committed violent crimes in the past, the relaxed atmosphere in cosmo allows security officers like sergeant ericka estis to let down their guard. i feel comfortable with her doing my hair. i mean, it s just like if you go
Be a beauty shop in anytown, usa, but it s actually on the grounds of the prison. can i have a magazine, please? yes, ma am. the inmates call it cosmo, and it s here where they learn how to style hair and give facials and manicures. it makes me feel like i m at home going to the beauty shop, and, actually, it relieves the stress. it takes me away from that environment, for a little while at least. my instructors, they don t treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i m a female and i m african-american and i ve been incarcerated, so that s already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she s surprised when she see that transformation. shampoo and conditioner, please. jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking
Please? yes, ma am. the inmates call it cosmo, and it s here where they learn how to style hair and give facials and manicures. it makes me feel like i m at home going to the beauty shop, and, actually, it relieves the stress. it takes me away from that environment, for a little while at least. my instructors, they don t treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i m a female and i m african-american and i ve been incarcerated, so that s already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she s surprised when she see that transformation. shampoo and conditioner, please. jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease,
Trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everything s sanitized and clean. many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. lance and darion, my 6-year-old and my 2-year-old. that s why i m here, so i can legally provide what they need. it s what you make it. with every situation, it s just what you put into it, you get out of it. you put nothing in, you get nothing out. although many of the inmates here have committed violent crimes in the past, the relaxed atmosphere in cosmo allows security officers like sergeant ericka estis to let down their guard. i feel comfortable with her doing my hair. i mean, it s just like if you go out and in the free world getting your hair done, you re taking a chance
Environment, for a little while at least. my instructors, they don t treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i m a female and i m african-american and i ve been incarcerated, so that s already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she s surprised when she see that transformation. shampoo and conditioner, please. jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease, spreads, curlers, perm rods. whenever they bring it back, i check it, to make sure there is no hair is in the brushes and make sure everything s sanitized and clean. many inmates see the cosmo program as a chance to not only better their lives but the lives of their children. lance and darion, my