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Inmate offers whiny ‘Survivor’ dose of reality
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Monday, March 26, 2007 - Updated: 08:46 AM EST

“Survivor” jailbird Richard Hatch could have more than his wings clipped if he ever finds himself among the boys at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility again.
Because we know of one fellow inmate who was rather irate that Hatch dissed his Plymouth prison pitstop in a recent issue of People maggie.
Hatch is now a guest of the feds in West Virginia after being found guilty of tax evasion, but while awaiting his trial, he cooled his heels in the hoosegow on the South Shore.
“I was there for six horrendous months,” the “Survivor” whined to People. “We were all in a small room - 52 people: child molesters, murderers, rapists and me. For six months I never left that room. There were no doors, no privacy. There were two TVs in that room, so I lived all day long with Jerry Springer blaring.”
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Au contraire, reports inmate William Byrne.
“The small room that Mr. Hatch was kept in is actually a dormitory unit consisting of a 40-foot-by-60-foot recreational dining room; 12 12-foot-by-10-foot four-man cubicles; four single cells for the handicapped, a restroom with six individual shower stalls and an outside recreational deck,” the peeved prisoner wrote to the Track.
A regular corrections nirvana!
“None of the 51 inmates that were in this unit with Mr. Hatch had been convicted of any of the crimes he mentioned in the article - no child molesters, murderers or rapists,” wrote No. 41703. “Sorry, Richard.”
Hatch also groused to People that the security guards “spat on” his food when actually, his fellow inmate tattled, the guards “went out of their way to accommodate Mr. Hatch during his stay here.” And besides, the prison grub “is prepared, delivered and distributed by inmates,” said Byrne.
Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald’s spokesguy John Birtwell told the Track that the behind-bars rah-rah man’s description of the situation - save for the guards giving special perks to the first “Survivor” star - was accurate.
“The line between truth and reality was blurred - as we saw in Mr. Hatch’s trial,” said Birtwell. “He was getting what all inmates get - three squares and four walls.”


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