MrJakeJ

What percentage of inmates are:

1. Basically illiterate

2. Mentally ill

3. Stone cold evil from the day they get there

I know you're not a psychiatrist, but what do you think are the most common mental illnesses? What can be done to improve treatment relatively cheaply?

Is it pretty much true that any smaller, younger inmate will be the "property" of someone stronger, and therefore someone like that should engage in "protective pairing?"

"Willing (ahem)" meaning intimidated into it, then? I'd imagine that to be worse in a way, because the "property" wouldn't be able to claim to have been forced into it?

Can you briefly describe what determines whether an inmate gives to or takes orders from other inmates, whatever the orders might be? Is it pretty much what everyone thinks, i.e. gangs and size/strength?

This being Reddit: Is there prison sex?