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04/25/2008: "Prison gangs, racial tension volatile mix"

In the racially divided world of prisons, even the slightest misstep may lead to trouble.

A Hispanic gang sells drugs to a white gang's customers. A white guy uses the black guys' urinal. Someone sits at the wrong table.

So it came as no surprise to those who study the nation's prisons that racial slurs aimed at blacks by a group of white supremacists may have set off the riot that left two dead at a Florence prison Sunday.

"It's an incredibly volatile mix," said Mark Pitcavage, director of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League, who has studied prison gangs and extremist groups. "You can have people killed, literally, over nothing." Racist comments, he added, would be considered among inmates as "a definite provocation."

[ The races should be segregated if they want some stablility. ]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/22/prison-gangs-racial-tension-volatile-mix/