Although going to prison isn’t exactly a positive experience for anyone, Tommy Chong has since expressed that it wasn’t so bad for him. The Hollywood Reporter quoted Chong, who spoke about federal prison on an episode of the podcast “It Happened in Hollywood,” as saying, “I swear to God. There’s no punishment in the federal prison. You get a computer. You get a nice comfortable cubicle. You’re in there with nice, intelligent people.”
Chong, as discussed by The Hollywood Reporter, was an inmate at the Taft Correctional Institution, a low-security prison in Bakersfield, California. Also in the prison at the same time as Chong was Jordan Belfort, whose story was chronicled in the film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Chong spoke with Maclean’s about how he met Belfort, who became his cellmate. Per Maclean’s, Chong explained that he was also partly responsible for Belfort’s book, which then became the basis for “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
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In fact, the experience Chong had at Taft Correctional Institution was so mild that he has referred to it as “Camp Cupcake,” as he did in an interview with Beyond Chronic. Per the Los Angeles Times, however, the Taft Correctional Institution closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
