The Miss Captivity Pageant was a Lithuanian television program produced by Arūnas Valinskas[1][2] that aired in 2002,[3] the program was a beauty contest held in the Panevezys Penal Labour Colony,[4][5] the only all-female prison in Lithuania; it holds over a thousand inmates.[6] The show began as a joke between producers, and was a rating hit.[3] The winner of the contest was Kristina Paliulionytė.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Captive beauties compete for title". Irish Examiner. 2002-10-16. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  2. ↑ "Who's the fairest of them all... behind bars?". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  3. 1 2 Wines, Michael (2002-11-26). "Panevezys Journal; In a Lithuanian Prison, the Beauty Is Unconfined". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  4. ↑ "Tarp "Mis nelaisvė" finalininkių - dvi žudikės". DELFI (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  5. ↑ "'Miss Captivity' crowned in Lithuania jail". 2002-11-18. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  6. ↑ "Beauty Behind Bars". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  7. ↑ Radzevičienė, Laisvė. ""Mis nelaisvė" Kristina Paliulionytė: "Esu laiminga, man nieko netrūksta" (papildyta sausio 14 d.)". 15min.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2021-06-22.


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