The allure of jail-style apparel is strong enough even for prisons themselves to get into the business.
The inn's highlight is a cell block that features original bars and metal walls from 1906, as well as a jail-style wash basin and toilet.
But at least, Taubman told himself, he was going to jail in style, in his magnificent jet, a silver-painted Gulfstream IV, which the crew at Taubman Air called the Silver Bullet.
He reasoned the outfit could help keep him out of jail and win style points with judges and notoriety with fans.
The first batch of ten celebrities have been divided into two groups, Group A and Group B. Viewers will choose which of these groups will enjoy their final night of freedom in luxury, while the other will be sent to jungle style jail, the Celebrity Slammer.
Rather than approach the intimidating portal of the original franchise, with its decade-long cross-series feuds, jail sentences, life-style brands, divorces, and handbag lines, I would sneak in through the servants' entrance.
The film, which stars Tilda Swinton as the mother of a boy in jail for a Columbine-style high school massacre, has been much praised by critics.
Australian journalists could face prosecution and jail for reporting Snowden-style revelations about certain spy operations, in an "outrageous" expansion of the government's national security powers, leading criminal lawyers have warned.
It was a view that David Cameron was happy to articulate when Labour's Jack Straw first proposed the building of a US-style Titan jail holding more than 2,500 inmates back in 2009.
I first met Frampton this past fall in the prison warden's office in Devoto, one of the few remaining old-style jails in Buenos Aires, so dilapidated that its windows stick open and rain leaks through the roof.
