What would you do for pie?

I like pie, and I like nudity, so if you added the two together, you'd think it would be a great combination. But when you add in a third ingredient, incarceration, well, that throws the whole thing off kilter.

Two Lenawee County [Michigan] Jail officers have been fired after authorities say they urged an inmate to strip and run naked around his cellblock in exchange for a piece of cherry pie. "We took decisive action," Sheriff Larry Richardson told The Daily Telegram.

Richardson said firing of the officers _ two of the jail's best employees _ was recommended by the county's labor attorney. Richardson said he learned of the incident in a letter from another inmate.

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Richardson said the officers considered it a prank. An investigation found that the male inmate who was urged to strip saw the two officers eating in August in the jail's glass-enclosed control tower and asked for some food.

The conversation turned to joking about what the inmate would do for cherry pie, the investigation found, and the inmate said he was willing to streak. Richardson said the inmate was allowed out of his cell and streaked.

Well, I hope that was some really, really, really good pie. Partly because two men who were good employees lost their jobs over the incident, but also because it just doesn't really seem like a good idea to get nude in jail. Not if you don't absolutely have to.