Prison plastic surgery

[1] "Incarceration itself is famously hard on the body," reports journalist and author Zara Stone in her book, Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery In Prisons;[2] in 2017, facial injuries accounted for 33% of all inmate hospitalizations in New York City, compared to 0.7 percent of the general population.

Some of these early surgeries fell in the eugenics bracket, the idea that criminality could be seen and displayed on the face, reports social Psychologist Ray Bull and Nichola Rumsey.

[10] An examination of some of the mid-20th century prison programs suggested that by and large, plastic surgeries did reduce recidivism—in some cases, dropping it from 76% to 33%.

"Discriminatory practices based on physical appearance perpetuate social inequalities and hinder individuals' opportunities for reintegration into society," noted author Zara Stone, in a Rockefeller research paper.

[16] In the movie Dark Passage, Humphrey Bogart plays the role of Vincent Parry, a man sentenced for murder.

[17] Parry escapes San Quentin and undergoes plastic surgery to change his appearance and hide from the law while he tries to clear his name.

In the 1996 movie A Face to Die For, Yasmine Bleeth plays the part of a scarred young woman that is conned into participating in a crime.