What are your thoughts on this? I think I pasted the link to the article twice; I'm new to this blogging thing.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
segregation in prisons
I was looking on the Post's Web site and was reading an article on California prisons and how they were beginning a process of integration. I had no idea they had been segregated, and it actually sort of bothered me to think that years after equal rights movements and changes in Congress that segregation was still alive in the country -- even if it is in prisons.
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I don't see the link, but in response to your post:
I had no idea prisons were segregated either. I agree with you when you say it is somewhat bothering that they have been segregated until now. I don't know enough about the history of prisons and their various rules to specifically express an opinion, but there must be some sort of reasoning for the segregation of jails. It may be that it is observed from other, integrated state prisons that racial differences can cause fights between inmates. But I cannot be sure of this.
The article also states, from other sources, that integration in California prisons may ease racial tensions. But my follow-up question is: Would integration actually ease hostility? I feel that because California prisons have been segregated for so long, inmates have now joined racial gangs, as the article states, and that it will not be so easy for them to ignore the racial tension built until this moment, it will take years for this to happen.
Why is this only being fixed now? I didn't even know segregation still existed in the United States. It's extremely unfortunate and a little strange that California prisons weren't integrated years ago.
But at the same time, Iuna is right--now that the damage has been done, it will take years for the prisoners to be mentally integrated.
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