I think he's based on Daffyd from Archer Y Morflod in Season 6. (The Wales episode).

It seems like we will have some sort of return to Lichfield scenario. It's clear there is nowhere like enough space to put them all (tents short-term until the prison re-opens?) In the rest of the system. It's possible the chain-gang will return to repair Lichfield.
Piscatella was just some form of…sociopath? He…

I loved Red's storyline here. The use of Communism's prison-life to illuminate prison life was perfect. Also it makes clear Red's previous backstory - she was a refugee with no choices and not a lot of experience of freedom, so her choices weren't really choices. I think the writers must have had her backstory in the…