Trying to change

I have been in a handful of different prisons in the past 10 years and every prison I have gone to its always about the racial politics. And to be honest, I'm not racist at all, and I don't really care for the politics. But the politics are a part of doing time in a prison. At least that's how it was...
I'm sitting here is a prison and I volunteered for a Substance Abuse Program (SAP). This SAP is one of the only ones in a California prison that is volunteer, meaning all the guys in the program really want to change. So this SAP program for the most part has turned into a group effort.

Anyway, on the yard I am on, there are 10 dorms with 90 guys in each dorm and only 2 dorms are SAP dorms. The things that go in in an SAP dorm are different than the other ones. In the other dorms, they push the racial politics. So the living in the SAP dorms is alot more kickback. Don't get me wrong, things could still happen, like a riot could jump off, who knows. But it seems like this change that is going on in the SAP dorms is a positive thing.

If prisons were more about change than hate, riots and so on, maybe the return rate wouldn't be so high.