Political Weirdos

The fact that he will essentially now be forced to do that in order to survive prison really is an indictment of the system. How are people supposed to rehabilitate when not joining a gang is likely to get them killed?

I'm not saying this guy is necessarily rehabilitatable, you have to have a particularly brainless mindset to even do this in the first place but in general it should be possible for people to improve in prison, otherwise what's the point, we might as well go back to public punishment and executions, since that's effectively what prison has now become. Minimum security prisons are probably closer to the ideal, but that's obviously not an option for all inmates.