We don't get prison dramas about real life prisons because real life prisons aren't dramatic. They are boring, boring, boring. And every day is Groundhog Day. Yes, there are prison riots and all that, they happen, but compared the endless hours, minutes, and seconds of tedium surrounding them they hardly register.
They're not called tard prisons, but essentially yes. There's a whole spectrum of incarceration options available in the U.S. for the discerning offender. On the one end there are the administrative maximum security facilities like Florence in Colorado. On the other end are Club Fed and Camp Cupcake with tennis courts and golf courses where the children of senators serve out their terms.
Locking up and guarding prisoners is expensive. Why spend money on walls and razor wire and bars and guards and even fences for non-violent prisoners who don't need them? It's also cheaper to cluster similar offenders together so you get facilities that specialize in prisoners with medical problems or mentally ill inmates or inmates with a history of escaping or geriatrics or addicts, and so on. Chris would be incarcerated with other slow-in-the-minds because it's easier and cheaper to keep all your spergs in one basket.
He might end up somewhere like Marion in Virginia (thought not for the current case). He's more likely to end up in a minimum security camp facility that specializes in idiots. Nobody wants to spend the money putting Chris somewhere like Red Onion Supermax. Chris isn't worth it.
