‘Nip/Tuck’ is ‘too much’ for inmates

“Nip/Tuck,” which had won fans among inmates for its surgical gore and sexual innuendo, has been shut off at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution.

“We decided it was all too much,” Doug Harder, a spokesman for the medium-security prison in Pendleton, told the Oregonian newspaper. “Way too graphic.”

During one episode of the FX show -- which chronicles the racy escapades of two Miami plastic surgeons -- inmates gathered in a TV room kept “eyeballing,” whistling and shouting catcalls to a female corrections officer, Harder said.

The officer filed a complaint with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the prison banned the show, Harder said.

Since the behavior problems with “Nip/Tuck” popped up only during group viewings, the ban does not apply to the 10% of the 1,621 inmates who have TV sets in their cells.