Why do women date men in prison?

Answer 1

There is an innate sense of safety in a relationship with bars between two people for these women. The one locked inside receives all the accolades and notoriety within the prison population, the woman receives a perceived perfect relationship without the normally accepted physical intimacy sometimes unwanted or impossible, depending on the woman. Either way, the woman is not seeking a "normal" marital relationship, yet requires the semblance of marriage to complete, or, in her perception, enhance her life. Her sustenance is often that she is doing something wonderful, that no one else would do, for a "wrongly incarcerated and innocent man," when she is surely yet another type victim.