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"It was really refreshing to see that we were tackling motherhood, because we hadn't done that," said actress Selenis Leyva, who plays Gloria Mendoza, head of the prison kitchen and a mother figure in her own right to the Latina population at Litchfield. In the new season, we discover that she hasn't seen her son Benito in two and half years, and when she insists that he finally visit, we're introduced to a surly brat of a teenager, a far cry from the adorable tyke we met during Mendoza's flashback episode last season. In an effort to make him get his act together, Mendoza demands that he start visiting every week to do his homework in front of her, but Benny has no way of making the long trip up to Litchfield on a regular basis. Gloria works out an arrangement with Sophia (Laverne Cox) for their sons to make the trek together, and it sounds like things go south from there.During visiting hours, even tiny kids were expected to remain still in their chairs.
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