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On entering the prison, why did the women.........


............have to take their knickers off and then leave them in a pile?

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Because they could have been hiding anything in their underwear

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That kind of thing is usually due to germs/lice etc.

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Probably a combination of answers above. To be sure they were not smuggling anything, and to check for lice, etc.

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Um, the same thing happened to Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption: the male prisoners were stripped naked, strip searched and then de-loused (the last part is what we see). They didn't want parasites infecting the general prison population, did they? Even if the newcomers felt de-humanised by the process.

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they were all given thongs later...

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