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Subject APNewsBreak: Idaho Inmates Claim Gangs Run Prison

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When I was a Correctional Officer at Statesville, near Chicago, the inmates were nearly in control. We guards barely ran the joint. 
I took away from the experience that prisoners basically consent, for their protection too, to be  governed by the prison officials as long as the social contract between guards and prisoners are strangely "tolerable."
The minute a guard violated that contract, their throats were cut, and the house went on lock-down for some months until the contract was restored. 
That experience taught me that that same consent and contract exists outside the prison walls as well. We expect our government to uphold its social contract with us or we too can invoke the Reeper, and we too can be put in lock-down. 
The public jail-house, America, is at the same primed boiling-point, level of discontent that I felt in Statesville before an outbreak of rage by non-consenting prisoners who reminded us that we were barely in charge.

Thanks for the pin, Trin.

Klaxon
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when i was in the marine brig i learned the guards
are far worse criminals than the confinees.
and that it is the same in the outside world.
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Original Message A gang war that appears to have taken over parts of an Idaho private prison is spilling into the federal courts, with some inmates contending prison officials are ceding control to gang leaders in an effort to save money.

Eight inmates at the Idaho Correctional Center are suing the Corrections Corporation of America, contending the company is working with a few powerful prison gangs to control the facility south of Boise and spend less on staffing.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Boise's U.S. District Court, paints the prison as a place where correctional officers work in fear of angering inmate gang members and where housing supervisors ask permission from gang leaders before moving anyone new into an empty cell.

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