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The minute I walked through the gate, the guard says, "Well, you're going to
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need some protection here. Um, right here, the Pacific Islanders are hiring, so you might want to join them." And I
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was sent to a low security prison. I should be eligible for a minimum security prison, which is one one level
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lower where most of the white collar crimes go, but because I'm not a US citizen, uh, they put me into a low,
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which is where all the drug laws are. But what I actually found out is um, they organize prisons by race, uh, so by
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ethnicity. This actually does avoid a lot of conflicts. Um you are more likely to get along uh with people of your own
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ethnicity in terms of culture, customs. The prison encourages because it reduces
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uh fighting and then once you're in your group uh if you have a problem with
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somebody else in somebody some other group, there's a group rep and the reps
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will talk about it and you know this like a hierarchy. >> Union reps >> kind of like a union reps. Yeah.
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>> And then they come together and they hash out. >> Yeah. They say look step stand down. We
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worked we walked through it. So, uh, so there's a system to it, but I I I didn't
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know any of this, right? So, I walk in and then this, um, half ch half Asian looking dude comes to me say, "Look, uh,
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my name is Chino. Um, welcome to our group." I was like, "What? What? Like,
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should I shake his hand? Should I not? Like am I joining this gang?