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Fwd: Re: Prison Gangs: The Indispensable Enemy (was Re: Zero Tolerance)


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> >At 02:40 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Eric wrote:
> > >Earth. I think zero-tolerance policies are racist, draconian, destructive,
> > >and completely without merit.
> >
> >By contrast, selling drugs to black teenagers, shooting black women or
> >rival gang members, or robbing poor blacks of their meager possessions to
> >buy drugs are courageous of resistance carried out by ghetto freedom
> >fighters who deserve our full support.
> >
> >wojtek
>
> Christian Parenti writes in _Lockdown America_:
>
> *****   While guards wield the power to kill and rape, they do not
> rule supreme.  The fault lines of power in the big house are
> notoriously murky.  Sociologists long ago noted that guards do not
> unilaterally control prisoners but, rather, broker control with
> inmates.

An interesting note. Here in Colorado the Republicans have privatised some of the
prisons. The companies running the prisons pay their guards poorly and have a
large number of women guarding male prisoners. About a year ago their was a
scandal about women guards having sex with the inmates. Aparently they would have
sex with the most powerful inmates to assure safety and complience from the other
prisoners.

Brad Hatch
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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> >At 02:40 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Eric wrote:
> > >Earth. I think zero-tolerance policies are racist, draconian, destructive,
> > >and completely without merit.
> >
> >By contrast, selling drugs to black teenagers, shooting black women or
> >rival gang members, or robbing poor blacks of their meager possessions to
> >buy drugs are courageous of resistance carried out by ghetto freedom
> >fighters who deserve our full support.
> >
> >wojtek
>
> Christian Parenti writes in _Lockdown America_:
>
> *****   While guards wield the power to kill and rape, they do not
> rule supreme.  The fault lines of power in the big house are
> notoriously murky.  Sociologists long ago noted that guards do not
> unilaterally control prisoners but, rather, broker control with
> inmates.

An interesting note. Here in Colorado the Republicans have privatised some of the
prisons. The companies running the prisons pay their guards poorly and have a
large number of women guarding male prisoners. About a year ago their was a
scandal about women guards having sex with the inmates. Aparently they would have
sex with the most powerful inmates to assure safety and complience from the other
prisoners.

Brad Hatch

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