The largest of the federal investigations, Operation Black Widow, caused controversy when it became public that some gang members were serving as FBI informants while still continuing to organize violent crimes. Representing rojo and not that flue. May He Rest in paradise.
The riot came to an end within a few minutes once guards started firing block guns and smoke grenades, using pepper spray and billy clubs. Many dozens more guards showed up, having been called over from the other prison across the street, and hundreds of men were led off the yard to the hole. The lockdown lasted more than a month, during which time Blacks and Whites were restricted to their cells and prevented from having contact with each other.
During a lockdown, there is always the fear that the fighting will resume once the lockdown is over. Resentments run deep in the penitentiary. The Department of Corrections has a way of trying to ease people back into the swing of normal, racially-integrated programming.
First, they will allow members of one of the offending racial groups often a shot-caller, or someone who represents him to leave their cell and approach the cells of the rival shot-callers. Discussions and negotiations happen. Perhaps some promises are made. You may be asking yourself: wait, does the Department of Corrections actually sanction the racial political structure and use known shot-callers to manage racial tension on the yard?
Yes and no. Its complicated. Each racial group elects their own MAC representatives who serve as the liaison between the California Department of Corrections administrators and the inmate population. The thing is, racial groups usually elect a keyholder, or somebody who has the capacity to represent a keyholder, as their MAC rep. So, after the shot callers qua MAC reps have made their rounds of negotiations, all the Whites and only the Whites are allowed to go the yard.
This facilitates the dissemination of information from the top of the political hierarchy to all the Woods, letting them know whether the beef has been squashed.
Even if there has been an agreement to end hostilities, everyone is advised to remain on guard and that there will be mandatory yard for all Woods on the first day of normal program, because anything can happen.
The next day of lockdown, all the Blacks are allowed on the yard by themselves, repeating the process. These alternating all-White and all-Black days on the yard usually signal the coming end of a lockdown.
When the lockdown ended at Folsom in October of , nothing ended up happening. The fighting did not recommence, though the tension was palpable for most of that first week. Eventually, normal race relations resumed and everyone went about their segregated business until the next racial incident. Thank you for writing eloquently about these realities. Would be interested to hear more of your opinion too, on what if anything could be done to fix the system.
Listened to your Sword and Scale podcast then ended up here. A friend of mine did 15 years in Federal and ended up a shot caller for the white boys a few years before he was released. Everything you described he has told me about in one story or another. Share this: Facebook Twitter. That change has led to a dramatic decrease in violence, Pacholke said.
Getting into a fight while in reception can often trail inmates through their prison terms and lead to retaliatory violence, he said. The changes extend to the rest of the state.
The state recently built several new units, each holding fewer than inmates, at the maximum-security facility in Walla Walla. The tremendous flow of young people into the juvenile justice system in California also means that juvie jails are training grounds for gang life. Public schools are the site for first initiations. In neighborhoods such as the Mission, a kid will be 'checked' on the street as early as elementary school and asked to claim a gang.
Children have died on Mission streets as a result of mistaken identity. Carlos, now nineteen years old, witnessed his best friend gunned down next to him at the age of eleven for wearing the wrong color clothes, in a little alley near 19th and Valencia. Do you have a story that needs to be told? Connect with Adriana Camarena at mission. This project was made possible with support from Cal Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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