Over at Grits for Breakfast, Scott Henson has an excellent post contrasting racially segregated California prisons with the Texas system which has been racially integrated since federal Judge William Wayne Justice laid down the law decades ago.  A riot at California’s Chico prison has drawn attention to the deep racial enmity within the California system.  Although the common areas of these prisons (as opposed to the living quarters) are integrated, the various racial groups keep to themselves and any social contact across racial lines is dangerous.  Within races, inmates self-segregate according to gang affiliation.   Pay particular attention to the comments that follow Scott’s post–most informative.