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A nitpicking but important point
Mr. Wolf was in jail, not in prison. Jail, while unpleasant, is a different experience from prison. Jails are locally operated, prisons are state or federally operated. Jails hold people pending trial, pending incarceration in prisons, people serving sentences of (generally) one year or less, as well as the rare person in Mr. Wolf's situation.
While prison is not necessarily exactly as depicted in the TV show Oz, the percentage of hardened criminals is much higher there and gangs are more apparent.