This is a sequence of photos illustrating intake procedures at San Quentin, California, apparently during the 1950s.
An employee of the prison stamps convict numbers on the clothing about to be issued to a new prisoner.
The new convict shows up in the clothing issue unit. He is wearing a temporary jumpsuit that he was given either for transport or for the earlier phases of intake.
New convict checks in with the correctional officer at the entrance to the unit.
At the window of the room seen in the first picture. Convict has received his coat, pants, and inner and outer shirts, and is now being issued his shoes.
The new convict retires to the other side of the guard rail seen in the preceding picture and contemplates his permanent uniform: one pair of shoes, three pairs of denim trousers, three chambray shirts, one web belt, one cap, one t-shirt, one pair of socks. Several pairs of undershorts and additional socks would also have been issued, but for some reason these are not shown in this posed sequence.
The convict is now fully dressed in.
Stephen D. Cox 