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hogwild · 3418 days ago · link · · parent · post: You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? - NYTimes Magazine
People's crimes are often based in life experiences that are very race-specific, and involve group identities that are ethnically delineated. Chinese gangs are distinct groups from black gangs are distinct from Hispanic gangs. In prison, often your only immediate "in" with a social circle is based on some group affiliation like this, and the rest of the prison probably falls into segregated circles once those boundaries are clearly formed. A more depressing interpretation, however, is that this is just how most people are in American society. If you look at a cafeteria in a diverse high school, most tables are a single ethnicity. People just segregate like this.