kailus13 said:
If people are starting to wear orange jumpsuits as a fashion statement, then prisoners could simply hide among them. Given that a prisoner could easily change clothes at a mall, it makes sense that their attire needs to change to be instantly recognisable instead of "Is that a prisoner or a fashion victim?"
I honestly don't really see that as an excuse, however ... As any prisoner who escapes a reasonably secure prison is likely to have had help from the outside, which means a change of clothes as soon as they're on the outside.
Not only that, but for the sake of making it SLIGHTLY harder to blend into the general public for those handful of people who do escape, you're making it harder on understaffed prison complexes where the grand majority of prisoners are going to spend the remainder of the sentence(s).
Add to that, having two-tone prison attire will make it easier to escape in the first place. Strtegic application of wet charcoal (esay enough to secure in prison in any reasonable quantity) and you have an all-black jumpsuit. Which will lead to increased potentiality for prisoners to escape and hide in the first place.