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Should prisons be racially segregated again?

Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:15 pm
Posted by L.A.
The Mojave Desert
Member since Aug 2003
65940 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:15 pm
I just finished watching all 4 seasons of Mayor of Kingstown, a show about a prison and prisoners in a company town where the company is the prison. It's fiction, of course, but as in real life, the prisoners segregate themselves along racial lines. Mostly the segregation is for protection from other races.

I did a little digging and found out that most prisons were segregated before the Civil Rights Act 1964, and then in 1968., when the SCOTUS ruled that segregated prisons are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment. I understand the court's ruling and agree with it.

BUT...

It seems like most prison violence is racially motivated. Would it make sense today to segregate prisoners along racial lines? Of course violence would still occur; they're criminals, after all. But it does seem like it might lower the amount of violence, and maybe even reduce the need for prison gangs.

Thoughts?
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
44579 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:24 pm to
I’m pretty sure the prisoners do that on their own.
Posted by lsusteve1
Member since Dec 2004
47242 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:26 pm to
I’d like to see them doing hard labor again
Posted by L.A.
The Mojave Desert
Member since Aug 2003
65940 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:29 pm to
quote:

I’m pretty sure the prisoners do that on their own.

Yes, of course. As I said in the OP
quote:

the prisoners segregate themselves along racial lines.

But they do it mostly for protection from other races. That's the origin, for example, of the Aryan Brotherhood in California prisons. Whites were a small minority in the prison system and they banded together for protection from other races
This post was edited on 2/18/26 at 3:42 pm
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
20788 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:30 pm to
Yep, there is even a book out that claims the average American commits 3 felonies a day. That is a lot of potential prison labor for a world turning to AI.

Posted by BoudinChicot
Member since Sep 2021
2278 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:30 pm to
They're a microcosm of the racial tribalism that lurks just under the surface in America.
Posted by Mizz-SEC
Inbred Huntin' In The SEC
Member since Jun 2013
22706 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:53 pm to
quote:

I did a little digging and found out that most prisons were segregated before the Civil Rights Act 1964

Thoughts?

So you're telling me Red and the tall drink of water weren't best friends??



Posted by LChama
Member since May 2020
3865 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:06 pm to
They were the exception. Morgan made him get jiggy wid it
Posted by BigD43
Member since Jun 2016
1371 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:20 pm to
There isnt a white America.

There isnt a black America.

There is a United States of America!

Posted by CleverUserName
Member since Oct 2016
17126 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:23 pm to
quote:

I’d like to see them doing hard labor again


Wouldn't have time nor the energy to fight then. Not would they have any desire to return. Oh but we can't have that.
Posted by Diamondawg
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2006
37760 posts
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:28 pm to
cubbies, is that you?
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