Prison race riot solution: Freedom of association within the prison system
It seems pretty obvious to me that prison riots, prisoner rape and abuse could all be quelled by imposing neither integration nor segregation on the inmates, but by simply giving them what “free” men in the outside world are denied:
Freedom of association—even, and especially, by race.
Freedom of association within the prison system could be put into practice by a very simple, 2 step procedure:
1) Cellmate choice: Inmates choose cellmates by mutual preference. Full mutual consent is obviated by the lack of single-occupancy cells. Preference can be confidentially revised at any time by any inmate, and should result in immediate reassortive action by the prison authorities so as to minimize potential violence resulting from changing tensions.
2) Neighborhood choice: Stated cellmate preferences are then used to move pairs of inmates (cellmates) closer to other pairs that would have made good cellmates.
Even though this doesn’t impose any “institutional racism”, the fact that it would, in effect, give inmates _more_ freedom as a solution to lowering prisoner violence would be viewed by the ACLU as a greater threat to their ideology than any other prison policy.
Posted by Al Ross on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:20 | #
The only way a White inmate can be sure of his safety is through membership of the Aryan Nation Gang. Not even the late Mafia chief, John Gotti, was safe. He was beaten up by a Negro whilst serving his (life) sentence. Only strict racial segregation can reduce the violence directed towards Whites in prison. Also Third World foreigners constitute a fast-growing segment of the US (and British) prison population and a case could be made for keeping them in especially tough, separate institutions with deportation upon release.