Laundry -- It's more important than you think

You'll get a chance to have your uniform washed once a week, and your "whites" on a different day.

On the appointed day, a night shift jail worker will come by, gather the laundry, take it to the laundry.  After they wash the uniforms, a worker will deliver the laundry back to each dorm in the morning.

For the uniform, you'll take yours off near bedtime, and you'll get it back very early in the morning. This allows you to comply with the requirement that you be in uniform whenever in your Day Room or in any other public area in the jail.

For whites -- underwear, towels, wash cloths -- you were given a laundry bag when you checked into the Mason Marriott.  It's a small mesh bag large enough to hold a few items of underwear.  This is why you should buy at least one spare set of underpants, so you're always wearing a (relatively) clean pair.

You really want to have your uniform cleaned every chance you get -- especially in hot weather, when you become over-ripe in less than a day.  And you want your underwear washed every chance you get, for obvious reasons.  That's also why I suggest your first order from the Commissary includes extra underwear.  You also want your tiny, threadbare towel cleaned.

If you've been "hired" as a jail worker, you are in laundry heaven. They give you two uniforms to wear, so you can swap one out while wearing the other.  And they (fellow inmate workers) will pick up and do your laundry -- uniforms and whites -- every day.  Obviously, the ICJ feels it's very important that their inmate workers look and smell clean; some of them work in Animal Control, at the Drain Commissioner's office, or out in the world -- and we couldn't leave the impression that inmates at the jail aren't cared for, could we?