What’s Best About—Prison?
YOUR PRISON PROFILE invited its associates to tell us: What did you like BEST about your prison experience? And a lot of guys let us know!
-----Note: Your Prison Profile is a Fictional Entity, licensed in the State of Imagination-----
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Devin A. says:
Orange! I love orange!
I’ve always been a shy guy. Even when I was running my business, I always wanted to be the guy who supervised accounts, not the guy who had to deal with clients.
So I thought, man!, once I get to Prison and they put me in my cell, everything will be fine. Just please don’t let them march me around in a convict suit where everyone can see me!
Then that’s what happened--and I found out how hot it is!
Let’s face it, as a convict you’re gonna find yourself in a lot of contexts that are, let’s say, beyond the comfy friendly earth-tone zone. I’m talkin concrete and steel. I’m talkin little TINY strips of grass. And I’m talkin hi-vis orange jumpsuits. When they pull you out of the courthouse wearin that stuff, you can’t pretend that you’re only there for jury duty. Now you’re the man from Mars, being taken back to your home planet while the earthlings look at you with their mouths open.
And so? Listen, I was out on that sidewalk, chained up and lined up and waitin for the con in front of me to heave his butt onto the bus, and who happens to be walkin down the street but my (former) boyfriend! I mean, what’s the odds? But when you’re out there in your clown suit, somebody’s gonna be lookin at you, and why not him?
He was shocked, shocked to see me, and I knew I was supposed to hang my head and look all shy and bashful and shamed and so on. But what I thought was, “I’m so DANGEROUS that they have to put these chains and padlocks on me. I’m so DANGEROUS that I’ve gotta wear this orange suit, so that little twinks like you know that you’ve gotta keep your distance.”
So that’s what I thought, and maybe that’s what he saw, because then he was the shy one and he edged out of sight and I climbed into the bus, and from then on, hey! this is orange pride, man.
