Colombia's sexiest inmates fight for the crown

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“Keep your butt cheek tense,” the girl says. She’s trying to cover up an ex-boyfriend’s name on Yurany’s arse with makeup. Yurany makes the finishing adjustments to her “fantasy” outfit and takes another test pass across the stage.

“You’re not in your boots anymore,” scolds the choreographer, ordering Yurany to repeat the drill. Walk, wave and smile. This time “like a queen.” The boots he’s referring to are the ones Yurany wore during her time as a Colombian guerilla fighter before she was arrested and sent here, to Bogota’s Buen Pastor (the Good Shepard) prison.

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“A good queen needs a good attitude,” she says as her makeup is applied. “Also respect and charisma.” Danelly has served six months of her prison sentence so far, and when she gets out in six years time she wants to go to university.

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Like all prisons, a heavy sense of misery, self-pity and bad luck hangs over the Good Shepherd. But the day of beauty pageant, the prison resembles a boisterous girls school. Prisoners shout and cheer for their candidate, and most all believe the event is the highlight of the year, a brief moment to forget the daily misery of life behind bars.

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