As I recall, one of James Byrd's killers previously served time for burglary, and was repeatedly raped in prison by black inmates. He subsequently (a) joined the local chapter of Aryan Resistance for protection against future sexual assaults and (b) developed an intense hatred of all things African American. Thus, a relatively petty criminal was transformed by "the system" into a sociopathic, "white supremacist" assassin.
I wonder how many others there are out there like him. And I wonder when the country's penal system will begin regarding rape as a crime that needs to be punished severely rather than ignored or, in some cases, implicitly facilitated as a means of disciplining particularly problematic inmates.