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the far end of the cells are two shower stalls. Officer Kohl leads me to the farthest one while Officer Wallace stays back at the computer.
    “Take your shoes and socks off right out here,” Officer Kohl says. “Then when you go in the shower, you can take off everything else.”
    A minute later, I’m standing in my underwear and bra while Officer Kohl pulls on blue medical gloves like Officer Wallace’s. “I said to strip,” she says. “All the way.”
    I add my underwear and bra to the pile of clothes and cross my arms over my chest while Officer Kohl inspects it all. Then she dumps everything in another garbage bag.
    “Open your mouth,” Officer Kohl says, so I do.
    “Wider.”
    I open wider.
    “Hook your fingers inside your cheeks, and pull open your mouth wider. Then stick your tongue way out, too.”
    She shines a flashlight in my mouth for a while, then grunts.
    “All right. Now I got to have you bend over and spread your butt cheeks.”
    I’ve probably never blushed at anything in my life, but I blush when she says that, and keep blushing as I do it and she aims her flashlight on me.
    “Spread wider,” she says. I move my feet farther apart, but that’s the best I can do. She grunts again.
    I think we’re finished, but we aren’t. “Last thing,” she says. “Now I got to look in your business.”
    “You mean my vagina?”
    She shrugs. “Some call it that.”
    She taps inside my thighs. “Spread wider.”
    “Can I ask you something, Officer Kohl?” I say, trying to sound calm and composed, though I don’t know how successful I am, since I can’t stop clenching my teeth. “Do you ever actually find anything when you do these body cavity searches, or is it just a thing you all like to do?”
    She frowns. “Like Officer Wallace already told you, how it works in here is you don’t ask questions. You get told what to do and you do it.”
    I don’t say anything.
    “Can’t hear you,” she said.
    It’s a pissing contest, but I know there’s no way for me to win, so I lower my eyes the way I figure I’m expected to and say what I figure I’m expected to say: “Yes, Officer Kohl.”
    “That’s a lot better. And since you’re brand-new here, I
am
going to answer your question, just this one time. And the answer is you’d be surprised at what we find in them body cavities.”
    “Like what?”
    Officer Kohl laughs. “Like I’m gonna tell you? Give you some ideas? I don’t think so. And anyway, we’re done.”
    “Does that mean I don’t have to take a shower?”
    “Everybody showers,” she says. “On the regular schedule, you take one three-minute shower every day. Today’s your special day, though, since it’s intake. Today you take you a long shower until I decide you’re through.”
    She hands me a white bottle. “This is lice shampoo. You wash your hair and everything with it, including your hair down there.”
    “You mean my business hair?”
    Officer Kohl frowns again, and I shut up. She steps out of the shower stall and shuts the door, but stays at the window.
    I hope the hot water will steam it up so she can’t see, but that doesn’t happen because there isn’t a handle to turn it on with, so the water stays freezing. The shock takes my breath away and I lather and rinse as quickly as I can.
    Officer Kohl cracks open the door once I’m done. “Back in,” she says. “And do it all over again. Only scrub harder this time, and stay under that shower longer till I say you can come out. You bringing anything in here from outside, it’s going down that drain.”
    Officer Kohl issues me one red jumpsuit, two pairs of underwear, two pairs of socks, one wireless bra, and one pair of plastic sandals.
    “You get clean ones of these every two days. Second-day underwear and socks you keep in your locker. That’ll be right outside your cell door. Dirty ones you put in your locker when you get the clean ones out. Change after shower. Sandals you wear until they wear