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lunasun

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Tue Apr 2, 2013, 10:41 PM Apr 2013

Former Prisoner's Dire Warning: America's Prisons Turning Out Violent White Supremacists

Former Prisoner's Dire Warning: America's Prisons Turning Out Violent White Supremacists "Mentally Fighting Civil War"

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/former-prisoners-dire-warning-americas-prisons-churning-out-violent-white

The prisoner, a black man who said he got on the Aryan Brotherhood’s good side after assisting them with a legal request, says that law enforcement should know about the danger of the prison gang because “it’s something they should have been aware of for decades,” he writes.

“If these recent killings represent the Brotherhood’s twisted form of retribution, the fact that it has taken so long to begin is all the more chilling. To me this would demonstrate a hard-nosed determination that all citizens should find frightening,” the prisoner said in the Daily Beast. “America’s harsh judicial system, coupled with a growing national affinity for utilizing complete isolation at super-max prisons as a corrections tactic of first choice, in many cases turns men into monsters.”
The prisoner warned that “many of the first men locked up when our nation embarked on a policy of for-profit mass incarceration near the end of the last century are now returning into society.”

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Former Prisoner's Dire Warning: America's Prisons Turning Out Violent White Supremacists (Original Post) lunasun Apr 2013 OP
Just more positive trickle-downs of privatization Blue Owl Apr 2013 #1
. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #2
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