a. I do believe that some individuals do change for the better in prison, such as Santos, but for the most part individuals remain the same. Individuals are sent to prisons and jail to be removed from the behavior they were sentenced for. Instead of this occurring they are exposed to more criminal activity and hence are encouraged to participate so other inmates do not ridicule him. One of Santos characters is Crip Tank, shot caller the Crips, who once he enters the prison life is respected by the other inmates and must maintain his status by organizing crimes and imposing fear with the prison. Crip Tank describes how he was moved to landscape once the guard discovered his winemaking business. This shift did not discourage Crip Tank from stopping
