O que significa "raise a stink about something"?

I was watching Orange is the New Black when I was confronted by this situation: the main character is illegally sent to the solitary and then an officer comes along to say what that situation is bringing about: "her fiance is raising a stink...". What happens is that the income's fiance is a writer and has the privilege of having the public attention to what he writes. So what they worried about was that he may possibly make a loud complaint about the system in prison by just publishing an article. He can raise a stink about that. So, as a way to avoid that problem, they decided to let her out of the lock-up.

That expression can also have a much general meaning: to complain about something. So imagine you go to this fancy restaurant hoping to have the best dinner of your fine, but after hours waiting for your food to be served, you see all orders have been mixed up. When you finally have someone fix your orders, what you have on the plate is nothing like you saw on the menu. The only fancy thing about the restaurant is the high price you had to pay to be there and nothing else. So you don't think twice before looking for the manager and creating a big stink about everything. In other words, you make a lot of criticisms about the place.

So what I want you to see now about that expression are two things: first, it can be used in more than one way. Second, it can have three different verbs in its construction, as in raise a stink/ create a stink/ make a stink. They all mean the same thing. That's all for now. Take care!