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Alderson Federal Prison Camp, home to Martha Stewart for five months in 2004-5

From Town and Country Magazine, offered here without comment…

So you got caught. That porn star wasn’t about to pay herself to stay mum about her night with your boss, so you stepped up and took one for the team. Or perhaps your daughters were better at Instagram than calculus, so you spent half a million bucks pretending they were the best college athletic prospects since O.J. Simpson. Or maybe the SEC decided you were less of a “cryptoguru” and more of a charlatan.

From Felicity Huffman to Michael Cohen, nearly every day brings a notable figure face to face with a possible jail sentence—which, in turn, has given rise to a cottage industry: the prison consultancy. From companies like California’s White Collar Advice, which boasts a team of professionals with penal experience (as convicts or as employees of the Federal Bureau of Prisons) to individual entrepreneurs like Federal Prison Handbook author Christopher Zoukis, they have made it positively de rigueur for those more accustomed to sleeping between Pratesi than polyester to hire an insider who will lay out what to expect when expecting to be incarcerated…

Counsel for connected cons-to-be– the Emily Post of prison etiquette: “Inside the World of Prison Consultants Who Prepare White Collar Criminals to Do Time.”

* Tommy Chong, of his time at Taft Correctional Institute, where he built a kiln to fire his ceramic creations

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As we ponder privilege, we might recall that it was on this date in 1966 that one of Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, “96 Tears,” by ? and the Mysterians (AKA Question Mark and the Mysterians), reached #1 on the pop chart.