Well, the good news is we all had ready-made costumes- yep you guessed it! We were all dressed as orange pumpkins- which isn’t any fun since we all look like pumpkins every day 24-7. So a few girls decided to turn it up a bit and do some festive face painting since we do have access to some makeup and art supplies. They added little cat whiskers or a few fake stitches like a mummy to their faces, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, the powers that be don’t have an appreciation for creative holiday spirit, because they issued them tickets for ‘attempting to escape’. Evidently, face painting is considered ‘changing your appearance’ which is a really big deal, because that isn’t just a ticket, it’s another charge that means a trip back to county jail, and through the whole court process again with time added to your prison sentence of up to 5 years! You can also get sent to the max/closed custody yard and will never be able to have an off-site job again- even if you eventually are fortunate enough to wind up in minimum custody. All for some fake whiskers on Halloween! For these poor women, Halloween at Perryville sure was all trick and no treat.
