Post #4049982

2026-07-23 23:57 UTC

Andrew Tate is not being kept in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) because he is a dangerous prisoner, or to punish him. He's being put there because prison administration puts all accused child sex offenders there automatically, so that they don't get stabbed. No, this post is not a glorification of violence. Prison gangs have a different code of acceptable behaviour than the rest of US society. It's an insult to the gang to have a child molester walking among them. According to many gang's rules, child molesters can't be allowed to "walk the yard." If the guards didn't put Tate in the SHU, a gang would stab him... then get mad at the prison administration, for putting them in the situation where this violent outcome was inevitable. The only smart move for the prison admin is to preemtively put Tate in the SHU. US prisons and jails are hell.

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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 2026-07-24 00:15

In many US prisons and jails, you have a choice to go GP (general population) or PC (protective custody). Most people will choose to go GP, because of the stigma associated with going PC, and because in many places, PC can effectively mean solitary confinement 20+ hours a day. Keeping the inmates isolated from each other is how they try to ensure their physical safety. If you are in GP, you are housed with lots of generally normal Black, Hispanic, and White people there for drugs, and a few hyper violent people there for truly horrific acts of violence. If you are in PC, you are housed with a combination of child molesters, snitches, people with unmanaged mental health issues, and people that are violent on a level that defies all description, including mass killers for organized crime. Because of this, most people don't choose PC. Your arrest record has your charges. Some charges are tolerated in jail, and some are "bad charges," like child sex abuse. If you get a new cellmate, and your cellmate has bad charges? Then it is your responsibility to take off on them. If you do not, then others in GP might take off on you for not fulfilling your responsibility to take off on your cellmate. It's all bad. The most common way for prison authorities to avoid this violent situation, is to not give people with bad charges a choice. They are automatically assigned to the SHU.

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