Cyber Racism In Prison

Cyber Racism In Prison

            Cyber racism in prison seems like it would be an impossible thing to happen because in most prisons, inmates don’t have computers, let alone Internet access. It may seem impossible because it almost is, but that’s also depending on the way you choose to look at things. Although its not cyber it holds many of the same qualities. The Aryan Brotherhood thrives on having these skills of communication.

            When I say communication it comes in double meaning for the inmates. They have different means of conveying simple messages within the prison system to each other that guards rarely ever catch. This is the key to their secret existence. They pass messages by using string and weighted bags with either sand or small rocks. They will then proceed to slide them at an angle to get them to the next cell when guards aren’t looking. This is just one of the hundreds of ways inmates make illegal exchanges in the cells, on the yard, etc. In the messages they send, to anyone besides the members of the Aryan Brotherhood members may look like a letter of wellbeing or maybe a casual update on the writer’s life status. Looking closer into the letter and deciphering its codes, one will find hidden instructions linked to the next crime. It can be anything from the passing of drugs to the next target to be killed behind the prison walls, or even outside the prison walls.

            These hidden messages if thought about, are a lot like having a cloaked website. Only those interested in the facts of the cloaked website or those who know about it are most likely the only ones who are going to be able to obtain its information. It is also a lot like the old days before white nationalism took flight to the Internet when everything was on paper and flyers passed out.

Check out this video and see how the messages are hidden in a regular letter: