by Tracye Washington
I know from experience that many young adults confined in a Youth Authority or State Prison like to exaggerate their experiences therein to enhance their status in the hood. The truth, especially in these California level four State prisons, is that daily life is filled with periods of aggravation and depression. The picture of life is boredom, but it is the effects of boredom which triggers all of the negativity you often hear about. Prisoners associate by race, region, gang or, social group. It is a gross violation of protocol to go beyond your collective group and attempt to harrass, threaten, steal, or assault one of them. This could lead to a riotious warfare. Many prisoners are fully aware of this and as a result abide by these rules of passage. But what they do in the alternative, is prey on those within their own groups. They Rob, steal, extort, rape and assault one another for no other reason than to satisfy some built up negative energy, to acquire the money and or property they get from their loves ones to purchase drugs, and to satisfy a fetish. When you use to hear the term, Car, or Card, as in Blood Car or Crip Car, in the past, it meant that those gangs or collective groups who bare that title at the end or their hoods name was aligned with others. In 2020, that is no longer the case. Because of the innumerable acts of aggression within these collectives each hood or sets represents themselves. The handful of prison structures, (e.g., Bloodline, United Blood Nation, Blue Notes, Consolidated Crip Organization etc.) they are a collective of several members out of every Blood or Crip gang. Their numbers and influence has since wane in the many years of non-progressive thought and primitive philosophical ideas. The major problem of today is drug abuse, especially meth. Meth is a drug like no other within the State prison system and is responsible for the exploitation, rape and assaults taking place because these youths sell their soul and bodies for it. TK1
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