"What crime have you committed?"
"Murder, money laundering, kidnapping, attempted murder." I once killed my own uncle. ”
This is the answer of one of the prisoners to a question, but in this prison, prisoners who have committed such a felony are everywhere.
The city with the highest homicide rate
Cape Town is the second largest city in South Africa, known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world due to its beautiful natural and geographical environment, and is also a tourist destination in South Africa.
Cape Town
But such a city has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, with an average of eight homicides per day.
Cape Town is polarized, with bustling suburbs on one side and suburbs inhabited by people of color on the other. The suburb is located in the Cape Town Plains, a legacy of apartheid that still has many people of color living there today.
Every land and everyone here is so disturbed by gang warfare that the government sends troops to maintain order.
Gang members have a common trait, tattooing their gang logos on their bodies, some numbers, some letters.
The prison digital gang was born.
Brandfrey's highest security rating prison
Located on the outskirts of the city, this prison is a shadow in the hearts of all prison guards.
Brandfrey's highest security rating prison
The prison houses this criminal, who has been transferred from all over Cape Town, who has committed heinous crimes, murder, robbery, kidnapping...
How can a prisoner who regards the law as nothing and human life as a straw man take the prison guards seriously?
As a result, this particular prison is dominated by gangs of prisoners. 26, 27, 28, you read that right, that's the name of the gang, and these 3 gangs are the main gangs in prison.
During the prison check, the prison guards will pay extra attention to the tattoos on your body to make it easier to identify yourself.
Here, there is also a special rule.
Prisoners must return to their cells to eat after eating, and it is inevitable that there will be conflicts between members of different gangs, and it is likely that they will do something during meals.
In order to prevent this, the prison guards had to do this, and the bosses of the various gangs also knew this, so they agreed to this rule.
The rules of the digital gang
Gang-free
In the prison dominated by the digital gang, the non-gang people without tattoos are the lowest beings, they have to listen to the orders of the digital gang, and if the digital gang does not speak, then they can't do it.
Newly imprisoned non-gang members will face all kinds of threats, threatening your family with their lives to transfer money and steal your shoes, and if you are not satisfied, your life may be in danger.
Some people are very confused, even if they commit crimes in prison, they are not afraid?
That's because the prisoners in it are all long-term or even life sentences, and their service time may not end until they die, so they don't care about this for a long time.
This is also the reason why the prison guards are worried all day long.
bunk
Newly admitted criminals are taken to the cells by the prison guards and arranged for beds.
But after the guards left, the other inmates in the cell would immediately ask the new person to get up, explain the rules in the cell, and then arrange beds for them.
It's like telling the newcomer that the prison's authority lies with the prisoners and not with the guards.
hierarchy
Members of the Digital Gang also have ranks, the lowest of which are creeps, all the way up to the highest general, who will tattoo tattoos representing their rank on their shoulders.
Truth be told, the promotion rules are incredible, need to see blood, and it's the blood of prison guards. Even if the fight between gangs causes members to bleed, they will at some point attack the prison guards and make them see blood.
For example, In the picture, Masalino, who is an Army colonel in 28, confessed to the promotion rules of blood.
Another example is the incommunicado George Thomas, the leader of the 28 gang, who became a general after leading the gang members to stab 27 prison guards while he was still in Brandfrey's highest-security prison.
All this is simply incomprehensible to us, how can such a situation occur.
But in the eyes of the members of the digital gang, the digital gang has its own rules, its own system, its own laws, and this prison has become orderly not because of the existence of prison guards, but because of the existence of digital gangs, and even the rights of prison guards are thanks to the digital gang.
Faced with everything here, the prison guards can do nothing.
Another intermediate security prison
In the highest-security prison, where prisoners only have half an hour of exercise time a day, this is a cage with no freedom to speak of, and this medium-security prison is a paradise for prisoners.
As long as inmates in higher prisons are not involved in the violence organized by the Digital Gang and perform well, they can be transferred here.
Most of the time the prisoners can move around the prison grounds, there are simple football fields, simple cinemas, which is already a pleasure.
But in the middle prison, it is not without the existence of digital gangs, and here it is still affected by the thinking mode and behavior of digital gangs.
For newcomers, they will often be stared at by the elderly, and they will also encounter the elderly's questions: Which gang are you?
But either way, it's easier than the highest prisons, and they have a privilege – getting out of prison.
The prison has a 6,000-hectare farm that requires people from the intermediate security level prison to work, and they feed everyone. Although it was farm work, it became the best reward for inmates who had been in prison for several years.
guard
In such a prison, the most difficult is the prison guard.
Most of the guards here are members of the emergency support team, and their specialties are search operations, riot control, and cell management.
Even with years of work experience, they are cautious because members of the Digital Gang do things anywhere, at any time, without warning.
In 1995, for example, a prison guard was stabbed because he was too close to the prisoners while he was eating.
"Live in the moment every day, don't think too much, because once you think too much, your heart will slowly be eroded, and then you will collapse, and you don't know when it will collapse." 」
This is the self-description of a prison guard, who is full of helplessness in the face of the digital gang.
When asked if the guards could do anything to break the system of the digital gang, the guards simply said, "To be honest, I don't think we'll ever be able to break it." ”