Stinking like hell could be a good strategy to keep away unwanted sexual advances
Also, are there trannies in her prison?
“‘Tallahassee is big, it’s old, it’s ghetto. Max has too many enemies and she wants out. […] Danbury is smaller and mainly for white-collar criminals and she thinks she can get there by causing as much hassle as possible.’”
Maybe the blacks don’t like her much.