their own sort of democracy, multiracial democracy in this prison. what do you make of that? that s one of the most incredible things about the story, the first day they take over the prison, they vote on leaders, who they want to lead. there s white prisoners and black prisoners and latinx prisoners, and they talk about being united now, that they are one. and it has to be said that we talked earlier about the fact that the guards and the prison system kind of kept them separate. so the white prisoners are given more privileges and are resented, but when they get out in the yard, they realize we re now all just prisoners and we have to unite if we want to survive. this is also a critique of the media, the way they covered it at the time and afterwards. as someone who worked in the