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...wriggle out of jail time for accidentally shooting himself in the leg with an unlicensed handgun in a New York City nightclub last November. But the former New York Giants wide receiver's personal fortune will help him on one score. Burress has retained the services of a "prisoner consultant" to advise him on "what to expect while incarcerated, and how to use his period of confinement as productively as possible," as his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the New York Post. To get a sense of what Burress's counseling sessions might be like, TIME caught up with Steven Oberfest...
...into the business? I was training clients in physical defense, and one of them mentioned she knew a socialite who did something stupid and had to go to prison. She didn't know anything about it, and she was scared. She wanted to prepare for it, to learn how to defend herself...
...quickly, because there are so many people to piss off and so many things you can do wrong. If you wind up doing something on the "No" list, it can make your time - whether it's 16 months or 16 days - a living hell. (Read a brief history of prison riots...
...many prison consultants are there? New guys pop up all the time. But I'd say there are three to five who do it right and have been in the ballgame for years...
...other thing is basic prison etiquette. A lot of people don't know how to be respectful - period. They're cocky and they walk around with a chip on their shoulder. Now they don't even have a name; they have a number. They have to follow rules. And they have to make sure they don't do stupid things...