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California Prisons Start Desegregating Inmates
Nat'l Public Radio, the tax-funded Voice of the White Northeastern Liberal ^ | 11 Aug | Frank Stoltze

Posted on 08/11/2008 8:34:23 AM PDT by flowerplough

For decades, corrections officials assigned inmates of the same race to bunk together to keep the peace among race-based prison gangs. That's about to change as the prison system prepares to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively deemed the practice unconstitutional.

A group of white inmates gathers around a bunk bed in a packed prison dormitory at California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, north of Los Angeles. The dorm is integrated. But each double bunk bed is its own racially segregated island.

Steve Cecala, 38, is serving time for drug possession. He says he has no problem with blacks or Hispanics, but he knows the consequences of bunking with them.

"If some guys up there at Level Three or Level Four found out that you bunked up with another, I mean, who knows?" he says. "You could get stabbed up.

"[By] your own people," he adds.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: corrections; gangs; govwatch; inmates; judiciary; prisons; segregation
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he knows the consequences of bunking with them...
1 posted on 08/11/2008 8:34:23 AM PDT by flowerplough
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I guess this means...no more white prisoners.


2 posted on 08/11/2008 8:36:05 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: flowerplough

The bodies will be hauled out each morning. These judges are morons and living in a Liberal Twilight Zone of Insanity.


3 posted on 08/11/2008 8:36:25 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: flowerplough

So the U.S. Supreme Court DOES support the death penalty for “lesser” crimes; they just lack the cajones to come right out and admit it.


4 posted on 08/11/2008 8:36:48 AM PDT by WayneS (What the hell is wrong with these people?)
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To: BlazingArizona
I guess this means...no more white prisoners.


Yeah, the Aryan Brotherhood are just harmless pushovers.

5 posted on 08/11/2008 8:40:08 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: flowerplough

“Anyone who’s been involved in interracial violence or gangs will remain segregated.”

Oh good! At least the prisoners are able to “opt out” of the integration...


6 posted on 08/11/2008 8:40:08 AM PDT by WayneS (Sarcasm Alert!!! (for the thick-headed))
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To: flowerplough

Maybe this will reduce the nuber of repeat offenders. You can vote after you are dead but not commit more crime.


7 posted on 08/11/2008 8:40:25 AM PDT by screaminsunshine
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To: flowerplough
Perhaps California is trying to figure out a way to weed out its prison population. They can use this court ruling as their excuse. Never mind all the people that probably end up dead.
8 posted on 08/11/2008 8:40:52 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: flowerplough
Be prepared for (more) death,destruction and chaos in California prisons.Actually,make that prisons nationwide.
9 posted on 08/11/2008 8:41:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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To: screaminsunshine

“You can vote after you are dead “

Only if you’re a so called “Democrat”.


10 posted on 08/11/2008 8:45:43 AM PDT by garyhope (It's world war IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam. VRWC. TWP.)
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To: garyhope

You got it>>>And absentee ballots for the prison gangs.


11 posted on 08/11/2008 8:48:27 AM PDT by screaminsunshine
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To: flowerplough

Liberals have been whining that there are too many people in prisons.
This should address that concern.


12 posted on 08/11/2008 8:55:31 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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The "progressives", (Democrat Party) and their enablers, should be known for what they actually are ... The Purveyors of Death Party.


Just add legalized murder of prisoners to assisted suicide, open borders, legitimizing homosexuals and allow the further spread of HIV, and abortion.

13 posted on 08/11/2008 9:02:06 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: WayneS
“Anyone who’s been involved in interracial violence or gangs will remain segregated.”

LOL, and the only 'integrated' cells will be the alpha male and his bitch.

14 posted on 08/11/2008 9:06:19 AM PDT by AU72
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To: flowerplough
Inmates who are found eligible for integrated housing but refuse to accept their housing assignment will be subjected to disciplinary action, which can range from loss of privileges to solitary confinement.

Under the circumstances I don't think solitary confinement is punishment. I think if I were in this prison that's what I'd want, if only for my protection.

15 posted on 08/11/2008 9:10:08 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: flowerplough

Another example of just how dangerous the Harvard crowd truly is.

The first 200 names in the Boston phone book would never have come up with such an addled-brained policy.


16 posted on 08/11/2008 9:16:22 AM PDT by freespirited (Honk if you miss Licorice.)
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All they have to do is commit some “interracial violence” and they’ll be off the “eligible” list...

It’ll be an easy choice for some of them.


17 posted on 08/11/2008 9:17:09 AM PDT by WayneS (What the hell is wrong with these people?)
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To: Alter Kaker

How could these guys even be rehabilitated and integrated back into society? Who would hire them? They literally have “loser” written all over them.


18 posted on 08/11/2008 9:33:15 AM PDT by kalee
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To: flowerplough
Desegregating Inmates?

Does that include their outside rec time.

Just watching the reality programs of prison life shows all clustered together by race, gang-affiliation, etc. to plot, do hits, etc., etc..

19 posted on 08/11/2008 9:59:22 AM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast (If not for double-standards, the Left would have no standards at all.)
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