given scofield's educational background, inmates and correctional officers alike would often wonder why a man of michael's credentials would have thrown such a privileged life away to end up in a state penitentiary. even more intriguing are his weird "habits"; he is often seen conversing discreetly with his brother during prison industry time and chapel time; and the fact that he tends to execute a highly defined stare around fox river's boundaries immediately from the point he got incarcerated as well as being called personally on command by the prison's warden himself, henry pope.