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| Posted December 1, 2005 |
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Photographs by Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times |
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| Local beauty schools and charities provided makeup and wax and hair treatments. The Miss Penitenciária pageant is quickly becoming one of the best-known pageants in beauty-obsessed Brazil. | |||
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| Though each contestant received a package with shampoos, lotions and makeup, better self-esteem, they said, was the biggest part of the payoff. | |||
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| Four inmates from this prison participated in the annual contest in São Paulo. | |||
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| Rather than shackles and prison yellow, the convicts donned evening gowns and high heels, bathing suits and costume jewelry. | |||
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| Charged to ignore the women's crimes, the jury instead was instructed to judge them on their beauty and congeniality, and on their talents in writing essays and poetry. | |||
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| The finale took place in the courtyard of a prison for women. | |||
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