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White supremacy and censorship in California prisons

Presently, this slave kamp's in a state of chaos and shock at the event that occurred 3 weeks ago. See, usually the neo-nazi prisoners (i.e. Aryan brotherhood, skinheads, kkk, etc.) and the prisoncrats enjoy a very close relationship. They both exist upon an ideology which is racist in root and anti-all right. So, it is very common for them to work hand in hand to maintain white supremacy behind the walls. But every now and then one of their nazi henchmen turns on them.

This occurred in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) with a nazi prisoner managing to stab three kops with knives that one of them (kops) gave them 9 times out of 10 for "us". So now, we've entered the retaliatory stage where they make a show of dealing with all equally via dogging every prisoner. They seem to be madder at the darker prisoners for not being the ones that harmed their fellow kops, than at them that actually did the incident! Confuses the orderly running of a white supremacist foundational prison, if you know what I am saying.

As to the policy on receiving mags, books and papers, in SHU they are saying that, due to fire safety hazards, newspapers aren't permitted. Magazines and books must come from the publisher or bookstore, no other sources. Guess they aren't aware of the historical realities of prisoner resistance movements. They begin via realization of their common plight which is kop induced oppression and then the thoughts begin on how to confront it. At this point, they have taken their lumps relatively quiet, but being as I comprehend the dialectical science of change, I see a total resistance right around the corner!

-- a CA prisoner at Lompoc, November 2003