They may advise white-collar and celebrity criminals, high-level drug dealers and disgraced politicians to help them navigate the society of prison and make the most of their stay.
[8] As the field of practitioners grows, consultants with non-traditional incarceration experience have entered the industry to offer services to those skeptical of solo-practitioners and convicts without verifiable success in custody, including undercover inmates and reality television celebrities from A&E Networks program 60 Days In.
[2] In general, consultants will advise prison-bound clients to keep a low profile and avoid offending other inmates.
Clients are warned to expect strip searches and to accept a complete loss of personal control to the guards.
[12] Along similar lines, Mangel helped Steve Bannon secure special housing for military veterans when he served his sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury.