Love During Lockup: Why Tai Simpson Prefers Dating Inmates

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On Love During Lockup, Tai Simpson is conducting an array of romances with prison inmates, and she's opening up about why she prefers to date men who are behind bars. On the new Love After Lockup spin-off's premiere season, Tai is the only one on the show who is involved with more than one man who's in jail. Tai lets viewers know how she meets inmates and how she enjoys her flirty romances. According to Tai, it's "easy" to date someone who's in jail, compared to someone she can spend time with in real life. Tai loves the fantasies she has about each of her prison love interests.

Tai has no shame about professing her love for inmates. She introduced viewers to her long-distance romances with BeeBee and Hottie, with Hottie being her favorite. Tai is a Love During Lockup cast member who is a regular on the online prison dating portals. She takes time out of her day to vet potential new spouses. On the show, Tai confessed to finding it much easier to date someone who's in jail than a man she can actually be with in person.

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While appearing onThe True 100, Tai explained why she feels affection for men in prison. «I started to enjoy dating inmates when I was living in Atlanta, and I didn't even realize that it was because they were inmates,» she shared. She stated that she had been at a «functionally depressing» point in her life when she started using the dating app, Plenty of Fish. Tai started to prefer online dating "because I could be who I wanted to be," she admitted. "I'm posting old pictures. I'm skinny," she said. Her experiences on Plenty of Fish eventually led her to virtually connect with inmates. "I think the reason why I was meeting