that s a good point. this type of violence happens all the time in chicago. you re a minister on the south side. what do you see on the ground? what s your assessment of what can be done given what the doctor talked about in terms of reinvestment strategy and broad analysis and suffering there, what can be done on a practical level? well, first i think we need to understand that the problems in chicago, it s not anything new. as you ve already stated before. one of the ways that chicago deals with these issues is through incarceration and criminalization. we saw he is specifically during the 90s, the gang leadership and created microgangs, cliques, they are cliquing up. as a result of that we have no leadership in these communities. but what we have not done is already been mentioned is that the kind of economic investment is not happening in chicago. there are wonderful on the
correctional institution and the correctional officers, but you re probably much more petrified of the gang leadership whether it s aryan brotherhood or mexican mafia because they control your day to day life and in many cases they control your life. prisoners will join these gangs or are assigned to these gangs because the gang offers some sort of protection, but the gang also demands that prisoners commit acts in violence and in some cases deadly acts of violence. given that, i wonder how much you ve got a sense of prisoners pushing back on the gang hierarchy and saying i don t want a part of this. is that even really possible in any sort of measurable way? no. there is essentially no safe, effective way to do that. it s a very violent and dangerous place. the facility we visited salinas state prison is a level four correctional facility. this year, violence is down. they ve reported only 700
on the basis of race. it s grouped mostly by gang affiliation so you can see, that s the only safe way to house people together. you re racially segregating. no, we re segregating by gang because if you put two opposing gang members in the same cell. they re going to stab each other. the correctional officers aren t the only ones asking for paperwork. i m a white boy from santa cruz, 45 minutes away. like, what do i do when i show up my first day in prison? you have to do paperwork. the gang leadership will ask to see my paperwork when i show up the first day? okay. so that first day i walk out on to the yard, like, where do i sit? you re back from santa cruz, right? they ll clear your paperwork and then you ll see the table and the area that the whites control
level-four prisoners, what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don t want or can t handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community to commit these types of crimes. and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it s sunday, and it s raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is on edge dating back to a smaller racially charged riot six months earlier between two gangs, the southern hispanics and the black guerilla family. you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. the pent-up tension finally erupts.
inmates that other wardens don t want or can t handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community to commit these types of crimes. and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it s sunday, and it s raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is on edge dating back to a smaller racially charged riot six months earlier between two gangs, the southern hispanics and the black guerilla family. you could feel the tension. staff were particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more and more pronounced. the pent-up tension finally erupts. just like that, somebody