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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.

Without a doubt the prison system is a hate factory, and survival on the inside makes joining one of these groups necessary. I wonder how many people have ever really met one of them or stopped to talk to one. I have.

My next door neighbors brother inlaw out in CA was an Aryan. He spent more than 3/4's of his adult life in prison. When he got out did odd jobs, tried to stay out of jail, and grow his own food out of necessity. The time he was out and I met him he had just got involved with a girl friend and she was pregnant. He wanted better for his child and tried to make a go of it. The two of them got nailed for drug paraphanilia in Placerville, and he got three strikes. His child that he will never see was born in prison.

Before this he told me he had spent most of his life in prison and couldn't handle it on the outside, but he was done this time. To get into the Aryans you have to kill a black person. He wasn't proud of it though.

The black and brown prison gangs exist for similiar purposes, for most of them it is a way of life. They can't be punished by jail, it is a mark of pride and they boast of how many years they have done.

"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. "

Sadly, I don't think it will be any time soon. In any thread on FR that deals with someone going to prison, the rape jokes invariably crop up. I'm not picking on this site in particular, but it's just an example that a substantial number of the public don't see it as a problem. Worse, some apparently view rape as part of the punishment process for transgressors.