OITNB S2 E7 "Comic Sans" is About:

* Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) begins her cigarette business as Red (Kate Mulgrew) brings her new product to old customers

* Caputo (Nick Sandow) gives his support to Piper (Taylor Schilling) and the girl's new. newsletter and also institutes a new "shot quota" for all the CO's

* The backstory of why Cindy has become entirely un-ambitious

* The story of how Jimmy (Patricia Squire) leaves Litchfield

* More of the storylines about Fig (Alysia Reyner) and about complications from the Bennet/Daya romance (which I generally ignore)

Comic Sans is a reference to Flaca (Jackie Cruz) telling Daya (Dascha Polanco) that just because she draws a cartoon (for the prison paper) she doesn't have to do it using the comic sans font.

5. Newsflash: Visits Leave Records

I forgive Jenji Kohan her few bizarre moments but there is NO WAY Piper would meet with the reporter who Fig knows is going after her embezzled funds. She even mentions to him that she doesn't want to "fuck things up playing high stakes Harriet the Spy."

All visitors have to sign in and have identification.

In addition, many prisons require inmates to submit visitor lists and the visitors have to be cleared before you can see them. They ask questions like "what do you do for a living" etc.

I am not saying Fig is super-careful, but Piper is not that stupid, why risk it?

4. "I may be related to Mussolini on my Mothers Side"

It might not seem like it, but I really do think this is overall a very strong episode overall, but sometimes I have to wonder what Jenji is thinking.

Remember in Season One when Caputo was saying it was stupid of Healy to allow the inmates to have a board? Now we are supposed to believe that he has 100% flipped and is going to allow the inmates to have a newsletter just to get some good press for the CO's?

Oh, and by the way, NOBODY calls CO's "Guards" (especially not inmates) for a very good reason...CO"s can never be counted on to "guard" or protect inmates.

If you have seen those commercials where the "bank monitor" informs the customers that he is not a guard, even good CO's are exactly like that.

I saw a group of guys in masks run right by a guard, run into the pool room, and attack someone with a pool cue. CO's do not risk their lives to save inmates until a CROWD of CO's show up (all employees wear panic buttons which they hit when a crisis happens) when it is usually way too late to save anyone.

Anyway, Jenji should know CO's are not guards and Piper would certainly never call them guards.

Also, some of the best parts of this episode are the prescient asides. I can't remember who said it (I think it was Bennett) said that maybe Valentine's day might not have been the best night for Caputo to give most of the CO"s the night off to see his bar band.

In truth, Caputo would be required to have the same number of staff on every shift. There are officers (known as 'floaters' generally considered too weak or too mean to have regular unit jobs) who cover when regular unit officers take time off (which usually is really bad news).

Also, I am 100% certain at some point I have called the CO's guards during these recaps too. In fairness, I would never have done it prison but I am sure I messed it up too.

3. They Call It "Compassionate Release"

After her crazy adventure sneaking away to watch Caputo's band, Jimmy gets away from the crack staff at Litchfield yet gain (She is the Alzheimers Houdini of the Federal Pen) and ends up doing a swan dive off the stage in the chapel and breaks her arm.

Somehow, this results in them granting her a medical release. As she is leaving and the inmates are wondering at the cruelty of letting an old lady with no family, money, prospects, or memory. Red says "They call it 'compassionate release'."

Sorry Jenji but this is kind of messed up too.

There is no doubt that reentry is a disaster for many inmates, but on the whole, compassionate release is a REALLY good thing for many elder inmates. They would never grant it because an inmate with Alzheimer's had a broken arm. It is almost always granted for people too old to commit new crimes and who have a life-threatening illness.

We need more compassionate release (not less), but we should certainly be vigilant about how the system could use it in cruel and unfair ways.