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To varying degrees, it seems that every community has an innate perspicacity for scandal. The continued success of television soapies is indicative of our , excuse the pun, lust for scandal. Scandal seems to know no boundaries, for it is rather rife even within the seemingly sterile confines of prison; and with levels higher in intensity than the scripted screen narratives lol.
Recently, social and mainstream media were abuzz with the solo exploits of a female prisoner. She used her cellular phone to create an explicit video of herself, which I am told would rival a hardcore pornographic production. The authorities were naturally furious but ultimately were unable to mete out the relevant punishment when it emerged that the video was ordered by her female warden lover. The young lady was however assaulted by fellow inmates- they were asked to do so by another inmate who believed she was in an exclusive relationship with the said warden.
Although I have known it for some time, I still find it baffling as to why male wardens are not allowed to work in female prisons. It may seem logical that they are simply protecting female prisoners from exploitation by the male authorities but this is not the case. On the contrary, it is male wardens who have been the victims of sexual abuse in female prisons and they simply cannot cope in female prisons.
Whilst scandals are the norm at the female prison across the road, the male prisons do not lag far behind. About a month ago, the deputy head of the prison led her searching unit on a rare night raid. As always, a few mobile phones were among the confiscated contraband. One phone was of particular interest to the internal security officer who inspected the contraband as he logged it. On the young man’s phone, he found numerous seductive and nude selfies of none other but the, then, deputy head herself! It then came to light that she had been involve in a virtual relationship with the young man for some time, virtual only as their plans for a more physical encounter were yet to materialize.
The now ex-deputy head is not the first and will certainly not be the last to be embroiled in scandalous activity. She should, perhaps, have learnt from some of her fellow colleagues one of whom was caught on two different occasions, at two different prisons, in the throes of passion with prisoners. This particular woman seems to be in candy land at work, for she has now gone even further than her own interests by selecting one of the hundreds of young men on offer to be her daughters boyfriend.
Aside from the inevitable prisoner/warder or prisoner/prisoner affairs, it is almost impossible for a prisoner to have a physical relationship with anyone else. Almost, being the operative word as nobody is as adapt at finding loopholes as a prisoner.
Legal visits were one such loophole that was exploited for some time, and would have carried on if it were not for the exuberance of one young man. Legal visits are not restricted like regular visIts, they are allowed on any day of the week and do not have a set time limit. They used to also take place in a private windowless room to ensure lawyer/client confidentiality. A prisoner whose wife is a lawyer made the most of this privacy during a legal visit from her. A few subsequent successful trysts brought his entrepreneurial skills to the fore. He arranged fake credentials for a prostitute, which fooled the authorities who allowed her into the prison as a lawyer. Naturally, she became a very,very popular lawyer. She had many successful satisfied clients before one guy could not contain his satisfaction and his shrieks of pleasure were mistaken as cries for help thereby alerting the guards.
What transpires behind these high walls is crazy indeed, and no one would be forgiven for thinking that prison must be a monotonous, boring ordeal lol. What surprises me is not the frequency of these events but rather the frequency with which I am asked about these types of happenings. Whether within or beyond these walls, it seems there is always an appetite for scandal!