Inmates strategically use fights to settle disputes\u00a0and climb the political ladder. And\u00a0if inexperienced\u00a0inmates can’t adapt to their dangerous surroundings, they’ll live\u00a0in constant fear of another beating.<\/p>\n

That’s what one participant on the A&E documentary show\u00a0“60 Days In” learned during his stay at Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The show follows eight volunteers\u00a0who go undercover as inmates to expose problems within the system.<\/p>\n

One of the volunteers, Ryan,\u00a0observed that a strict social hierarchy governed his pod of inmates. Fights broke out\u00a0between members of different\u00a0social groups over virtually any perceived slight \u2014 from\u00a0spreading gossip or talking too loudly at night to\u00a0reneging on a deal to trade hash browns.<\/p>\n

Ryan, who did not use his last name on the show, further explained what purpose violence serves behind bars:<\/p>\n

“One thing the public doesn’t know about is that in jail, violence is almost necessary. It’s a way that that society, if you will, keeps peace. It’s instilling fear. It’s something along the lines of a political party, and violence is almost like the campaign platform\u00a0they\u00a0run upon. It keeps everything in check if anyone steps out of line.”<\/p>\n

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Inmates strategically use fights to settle disputes\u00a0and climb the political ladder. And\u00a0if inexperienced\u00a0inmates can’t adapt to their dangerous surroundings, they’ll live\u00a0in constant fear of another beating. That’s what one participant on the A&E documentary show\u00a0“60 Days In” learned during his stay at Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The show follows eight volunteers\u00a0who go undercover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,47,133],"tags":[155,157,156,158],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politic","category-military","category-social-politic","tag-clark-county-jail","tag-police","tag-undercover","tag-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americandownfall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}