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| New Federal Prison Integration Order To Reduce Prison Overcrowding By Homicide |
| 2008-05-29 |
| San Quentin State Prison inmate Lexy Good is white, hangs out with whites on the prison exercise yard and must be careful not to associate with blacks and Latinos. No cards, no basketball outside the color lines. Those are the unwritten inmate rules of prison life. People stick to their own race. Good, who's doing a short stretch for receiving stolen property, likes it that way. "We segregate amongst ourselves because I'd rather hang out with white people, and blacks would rather hang out with people of their own race," said Good, 33, of Walnut Creek. "Look at suburbia. Look at Oakland. Look at Beverly Hills. People in society self-segregate." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 IOW, 'tis a real-time Govt-State experiment on the curr status of race relations in America = Amerika. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-29 22:52 |
| #6 "kumbaya, my lord, kumbaya..." "quit singin', honkey!" this has beatings and worse written all over it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-05-29 19:53 |
| #5 Branding works better in every dimension. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-29 17:57 |
| #4 We'd all be a lot better off if the death penalty was given and quickly enforced for any criminal act committed while in prison. Make a law that says "Rape someone in jail; we find your DNA in them, you'll be getting the spike inside a month" and you'd see this crap stop cold. We should also be executing anyone who has more than a ten year sentence. If ten years won't reform them, they're not going to be reformed and society has too many other serious needs it has to fund to waste money on warehousing criminal bastards whom we'd all be better off seeing dead anyway. |
| Posted by: Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-05-29 17:40 |
| #3 This is going to lead to lot of unneeded bloodshed and suffering; just to point out the obvious, but white supremacist gangs in the US correctional system exist not because there is a huge pool of neo-nazi outside, but because white criminals know that in jails, they're at the very bottom of the food system, with the mexican mafia and the black gangs at the top; hispanic-on-white or black-on-white homosexual rape & gangrape is rampant, and unfortunately for the inmates, the most victimized are not those who would "deserve" it the most, like the "macho" view that "criminals deserve to be raped by Bubba", but the most fragile and outside the criminal subculture... that is young white men who are not hardened criminals, those who goe in jail for possession, driving-related crimes, one-off crimes,... basically, the lower and middle class kids. White can and do rape white, but hispanics and black don't rape each other (though they do rape inside their own ethnic group, again, preying on the weaker and less criminally hardened), but no white could ever even think of raping an hispanic or a black or there would be a riot. This racial aspect is one of the big taboos or race-conscious America, as there probably are more men raped a year (most of them white, most often raped by non-white, and often put in actual sex-slavery) than women. The correctional system is perfectly aware of that, but there is IMHO a mix of inertia, cynical indifference, and PCness and unwillingless to even acknowledge the issue. Again, see Stop Prisoner Rape No Escape Male Rape in U_S_ Prisons (see Race and Ethnicity). Not a pleasant subject, but IMHO, very symptomatic of today's West, an "homegrown" case point, where the western jail systems are the mirror of post-apartheid SA, for example. By the way, french jails are segregated for exactly the very same reason, and last year IIRC, an "anti-racist" org called for the end to this segregation, I don't know what became of that, but IMHO, this was a case where Reality prevailed against Ideology (unlike here). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-05-29 15:34 |
| #2 "inmates are intelligent" But not intelligent enough to stay out of jail.... |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2008-05-29 14:58 |
| #1 Coming soon - doilies and frilly curtains in the death chamber - "to brighten the atmosphere..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-05-29 12:46 |