Hope Fosters Hope
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Debunking the Prison Code is a Christian Apologetic looking at eight different aspects of the prisoner's worldview gangs, authority, respect, snitching, etc. and holds them up for comparison against the tests for a worldview to show the prison code to be a false worldview. The author then offers Christianity as a viable alternative to live by. Debunking the Prison Code is well researched and teeming with history of the Texas Prison System. It is written with the goal of provoking thought among prisoners attempting to live by the prison code and accelerating their transformation and rehabilitation.
The following are excerpts from ‘Debunking the Prison Code’
Pg. 5
Just the word prison carries images of guard towers, razor wire-topped fences, convicts picking cotton in huge fields beneath the hot sun, or bald headed, tattooed convicts working out all day with free-weights. Hollywood fills our minds with images of hardened criminals who think nothing of hurting others, carrying shanks, and participating in gang activity. If you ask any convict who has done a fair amount of time, these images e overrated. Many prisoners will tell you that when they came through the back door of the prison, they believed they were walking into a Hollywood kind of prison. Blood in-Blood out, people being beat; raped, and hearing screams in the night on a darkened prison tier. While violent acts do happen in prison, and gangs are rampant, at the end of the day, people are still people.
blend in with the white society.
Pg. 19
Most prison populations are divided, "often violently", along racial lines.42" Prison gangs are similarly divided. In Texas specifically, you have white gangs such as Aryan Brotherhood, Aryan Circle, and White Knights. The Hispanic gangs are Texas Syndicate, Mexican Mafia, Barrio Aztecas, Texas Chicano Brotherhood, Raza Unida, and Pistoleros. The black gangs are the Mandingo Warriors, Black Gorilla Family, Five Percenters, Gangsta Disciples, Folk, Crips, and Bloods. In more recent years, TDCJ has cracked down on the more violent prison gangs and have placed their members in Administrative Segregation (Ad/Seg). This has caused another prison gang to crop up called the Tango Blast. It is a mostly Hispanic gang, further d1iving home the notion that prison gangs are naturally divided by skin color.
Pg. 20
Yet, the idea of race as a color is relatively new. Prior to the 1T1' century and the African Slave Trade, race referred to one's beliefs or culture; a social construct-not the color of one's skin. Defining race as the color of one's skin originated when the rising need for laborers on the sugar, cotton, and indigo plantations of the colonies demanded solutions. Britain attempted to fill this need by sending their criminals and poor to be indentured servants. Unfortunately, this did not work out very well. These white, poor people and criminals simply ran away to a different city or colony and changed their name. The plantation owners found themselves in dire straits when they could not do much to make up for the lost laborers. When black slaves were brought over from western Africa, this labor problem was solved, in that if a person was black, the color of their skin denoted their social position, (i.e., a slave). The dark-skinned slaves could not easily run away and blend in with the white society.
The misconception of basing a gang on the color of skin is easily exposed. Dr. Richard Gunasekera, professor of biochemistry and biology at the University of Houston-Victoria, states that DNA clearly shows that all humans, regardless of their skin color, can be traced back to a common ancestry, (i.e., Adam and Eve). No matter which race you are, when it comes to DNA, humans are 99.9% identical.
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