Chapter 106 - 105: The New Prison Overlord
In American prisons, there’s a unique food chain where gang members occupy the highest tier, especially in Pelican Bay Prison, where this situation is more pronounced as over sixty percent of the inmates are gang members.
Even if one is not a gang member, after entering prison, joining a gang becomes necessary to survive. Thus, many criminals become affiliated with gangs only after being incarcerated, resulting in about eighty percent of Pelican Bay’s inmates being gang members.
Still, a small portion of people, despite their difficult existence, are unwilling to join any gangs.
The reason is simple: it’s easy to join a gang but hard to leave. Once part of a gang in prison, you’re part of it even after release, and it’s very easy to be used as cannon fodder.
Every gang in prison makes its presence known, otherwise how could they band together or recruit people? Those inmates who still have a chance of release or hope for parole obviously do not wish to join gangs.
As for Yang Yi, he didn’t belong to any gangs, at least none of the infamous major ones. He was a prisoner who could fight, and under his wing, others found protection. After their release, everyone would go their separate ways without interfering with each other; thus, Yang Yi was well-liked by many prisoners. This phenomenon was quite common, with around twenty percent of prisoners surviving by forming such alliances.
Yang Yi sat down at the dining table and began to enjoy his dinner. Before long, a black man with a tray in hand hurried over to him.
"Hello."
After respectfully greeting Yang Yi, the black man pulled out two packs of cigarettes and placed them beside Yang Yi, then whispered, "I’d like to follow you."
Yang Yi looked up and asked deliberately, "What’s the charge?"