Criminal Justice
Fla. Judge to Inmates: No More Saggy Pants in My Court
Posted Sep 11, 2008, 09:39 am CST
By Martha Neil
For the second day running, a Florida judge sent inmates back to jail for a change of clothes today before hearing their cases.
The issue was saggy pants: Circuit Judge Daniel Perry said yesterday that he was tired of seeing inmates appear before him "with their rear ends hanging out of their pants," a court transcript states. He ordered the 61 inmates on his docket back to jail so that a handful could change into better-fitting orange prison pants, according to WTVT, a Fox News affiliate in Tampa.
The issue delayed court yesterday for an hour and a half, the Associated Press reports.
Spare pants were also delivered to the Hillsborough County courthouse at which Perry works, but someone didn't get the message. Today, another set of inmates was also sent back to jail by Perry, because some again were wearing saggy pants, WTVT writes.
Additional coverage:
St. Petersburg Times: "Undies are out of order in his court"
Updated at 3:10 p.m. to include link to St. Petersburg Times coverage.
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