November 12, 2008
Prison tries to integrate housing again
Lance Corcoran, a California Correctional Peace Officers Association spokesman, said inmates didn't like the ban on tobacco a few years ago either, but they adjusted. It takes a few troublemakers to disrupt the change to integrated housing, he said.
Corcoran said the inmates need to learn to live among different races. When they step out of prison, this is the reality of life, he said.
"We have guys who get out of administrative segregation, we give them $200 and put them on a bus where there's all kinds of people," he said. "You have to be able to live with each other and behave…"
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