Emily Cuthbertson - Nashua Street Jail

When we visited the Nashua Street Jail in Boston something that stood out to me was that everything an inmate does while in prison is watched by not only the guards, but other inmates. Other inmates will study behaviors of a new inmate and see if they get money in their canteen or if they have visitors and decide how they want to treat that inmate. Most inmates who do not have a lot will get preyed on and harassed even though they cannot control what they get from the inside. On top of other inmates watching the weaker inmates, guards are also watching and seeing how they are being treated. If an inmate starts to get into a fight it takes about 30 seconds for the response team to arrive and help that inmate, which sometimes is too late. I also found it interesting that when we talked with Muhammed, he said that if you do not know what an inmate did you would ask the inmates who commit murder and robberies are the inmates that are respected and feared. St the same time the inmates who commit rape are not respected at all and normally get beat by the big guys to get him out of their cell block. It was interesting to know that the way they think of social order is the one who has been shot or stabbed or committed at high factor crime and how that is backwards from thinking on the outside world.