That is the problem with the prison system; you become institutionalized... Imagine the fed. government giving you three hot meals a day and a place to sleep, and you really don't have to do **** for yourself. After a while, you basically become like an overgrown baby; you are scared to leave prison because the system already provides everything you need. (Think about it, remember when you were a child and you were too afraid to go an do something simple because you were nervous to do it yourself? Same situation.) That is when people do what is referred to as "catching a case" or doing something like stabbing a guy or doing something less than kosher to stay in for longer.
Besides my diatribe about the problems in the penitentiary system, I think he is off his rocker, but trying to put up a facade about how it is not so bad to be in prisonl if anything he should be saying how bad an experience it is since he is supposed to be getting a reduced sentence to talk to little kids about prison being bad). Whatever.