For profit prisons churning out waves of angry, violent white supremacists.

Courtesy of Mediaite: 

The nation’s “for-profit” prisons have been incubating thousands of Aryan Brotherhood gang members and, as their sentences expire, they are prepared to flood the nation. This wave of white supremacist gang members will emerge from the nation’s prisons and engage in a terrorist campaign of targeted revenge which will soon evolve into indiscriminant mayhem and racial violence. At least, this is the warning of an anonymous former prisoner writing for The Daily Beast. 

“Law enforcement may have a real problem on its hands,” writes a former prisoner who declined to share his name in a piece recently published in The Daily Beast. “They’re being tight-lipped about it, but it’s something they should have been aware of for decades. They had to see it coming.” 

“Four people have been killed since the beginning of the year in a series of shootings that appear to be connected to the homegrown jihadists of the Aryan Brotherhood,” Anonymous asserts. He cites the murders of Kaufman County, Texas District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, his predecessor Mark Hass, and Colorado prison chief Tom Clements as examples of bloodshed committed by the Aryan Brotherhood. Reports have linked the assassination of McLelland to his targeting by Aryan Brotherhood members. 

“Many of the first men locked up when our nation embarked on a policy of for-profit mass incarceration near the end of the last century are now returning into society,” the former prisoner writes. “And, as predicted by numerous professionals, they are sicker and more dangerous than when they went behind bars.”

In other words what is happening in Texas may spread across the country as more of these angry racist bastards get out onto the streets.

You know I have been reading a lot about the school-to-prison pipeline that has emerged in various communities around the country, including Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and many other places in mostly red states.  It is often identified as largely impacting the black community, but it certainly shuffles through its fair share of youthful white "offenders" as well.

The state allows these private prisons to crop up and then feeds them a steady stream of young people. A large number of who were expelled from their schools, due to their "zero tolerance policies," for small infractions like drug possession, or fighting, or even skipping class, and then pushed out into a community where they are destined to get into trouble and are eventually locked in cages.

In those cages, abandoned by society, by their schools, and often by their parents, they learn how to survive by following the rules put in place, and reinforced, by criminals. A set of guidelines that rather than turn them into functioning members of society, instead turn them into feral creatures who learn to fight for what they want, and to ONLY trust their fellow gang members. Gangs, by the way, often identified by ethnicity.

Then after the prison can no longer milk the state for funds to incarcerate them, they are released into the communities that abandoned them in the first place.

It is only a matter of time before many of them re-offend and go back into the only place they have ever felt welcome. But NOT before they put in to practice on the streets the "skills" they learned in prison.

As long as private prisons remain so profitable there will be no real attempt at reform. So while the communities embrace this false sense of security, in reality the very prison system that they trust to keep them safe may be breeding the kind of lifelong criminals that will one day return to victimize them again, and again, and again.