Trip report/ask me about time in maximum (and minimum) security prison

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What happened after you didn't join the Aryans? Was there more pressure to join?

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just a few comments, but I kept walking and acted like I heard nothing

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How did you decline without being insulting?

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just said I was close to release and I didn't want to hurt that from happening. Most guys in prison value being released.


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Why do you think you avoided being messed with?

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I was messed with a few times...don't give an inch then.
Otherwise, try to be unknown. Always have someplace to go or something to be doing. Don't stand around. Spending all day in the library was a good way to avoid seeing anyone. No eye contact with anyone other than guards. Be as unknown as possible.

It did help that it kind of filtered down that I had come from Joliet Seg to Vienna. They didn't know it was for taking a beating. The assumption is I probably fought off other attackers like a rabid dog to get put in seg.