Mar.15.2007 A gay guy who’s lived on an island doesn’t like prison?
Maybe there isn’t enough anal rape in minimum security prison for former “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch, who’s complaining about the hardships of country club jail for his tax evasion.
“Obviously, this is better than the county lockup. There’s no fence here,” Hatch, 45, says of the minimum-security prison in Morgantown, W.Va. – where he’s 14 months into his 51-month sentence after his 2006 conviction on three counts of evading taxes on his $1 million Survivor winnings, as well as on other income from a rental property and $321,000 for hosting a Boston-based radio show.
“But people think I’ve come to a country club. It’s not. This is prison. Just because it’s got a beautiful view of the countryside doesn’t make it a resort,” he says. “And it’s horrendous because I’m an innocent man in jail.”
I’m not sure how I’d feel if I were a loose gay man in jail. Like, I’d obviously be upset I’m caged away. But I’m sure part of me would be excited to be the belle of the ball to many strapping young Black gentlemen or other dirty bad boys of a variety of ethnicities. Jail is one of the only places it would be entirely socially acceptable. When you combine that with the fact I’d have made my fame as a douchebag who walked around naked and subsisted off of rice and fish for a couple months, I’d think jail might be a pretty peachy thing. If there’s two things gay guys love, it’s strange c*ck and rice.
That’s really what makes me the journalist I am: the ability to put myself in another person’s shoes with a great understanding as to what makes them tick. I think we’ve really made a breakthrough into the mind of a different group of people today and thank you for taking that ride with me and learning an important lesson.
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