Jeff Smith: When J.T. Met Pork Chop (or Sex, Lies & Prison Love)

MrRelevant · Oct 5, 2011

Last month, I moved cross-country from St. Louis to the New York City area. The other night, a colleague invited me to a party. It was teeming with Brooklyn hipster-intellectual types young college profs, Times reporters, social entrepreneurs, assorted do-gooders.

The only person I knew was the host, but he kindly introduced me around as a New School prof teaching in their public policy graduate program (yawn) who once ran for Congress (yawn) and served in the Missouri Senate (slightly more polite yawn). They were Brooklyn-ites, after all.

Midwestern-ness emanated from me like stink from a skunk. I could feel it when I used the word wife instead of partner, the self-consciously gender-neutral term they used when referring to spouses or long-time companions.

Then the host told them where I spent 2010, and their curiosity was insatiable.

Was it white-collar? (Maybe 5%.) Was it violent? (Occasionally.) Did you get in fights? (A couple.) Did you get hurt? (Yes.) What were the people like? (More interesting and less pretentious than you.)

They reached for the gin, hoping the liquid courage would help them ask the question they were dying to ask. But it didnt. Instead, one stammered, Did you get, uhwas there a lot of sex?
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http://therecoveringpolitician.com/contributors/jeffs/jeff-smith-sexliesandprison

Read on.

BTW this is Jeff Smith

Interesting insight. Seems like alot of leeway even for a low level security facility. Its comforting to know love springs eternal within the confines of a facility intended to punish folks for crimes against humanity.

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