Chandra Bozelko, an inmate at York Correctional Institution in Niantic, describes inmate romances:
That female prisoners enter into liaisons with other women is a deafening, rhythm-stopping reality in prison. Correction officials discourage romantic relationships not out of homophobia or cruelty but because they have learned from their own lives that love makes people do crazy things. Some are crazy in the extreme, like killing a cheating spouse, and others only slightly crazy, like tattooing your crush’s name on the skin atop your jugular. Both types of craziness are well-represented in any correctional facility; prisons don’t need any more crazy because, especially in an overpopulation crisis, we have quite a stash.
(Hat tip: Mark Oppenheimer)
The Dish 