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The impact of lies and white supremacy on institutional conditions in American prisons is undeniable. There is a particular power dynamic with racist intent in the prison system, manifested in what Brittany Friedman calls “prison apartheid.” Prisons are a microcosm of how prison apartheid functions as a broader governance strategy to eliminate political goals and spread deception, disinformation, and division in society. Among many shocking revelations, Friedman shows that California prison officials, beginning in the 1950s, declared war on incarcerated blacks, sought to identify black activists as a major problem, and devised a strategy to manage, segregate, and eliminate these individuals from the prison population, a strategy that continues to this day. Prison Segregation examines how the California Department of Corrections used formal, covert, and sometimes lawless oversight methods, including officers' alliances with incarcerated white radicals, to suppress black political movements, revealing broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American prisons. Drawing on original interviews with founders of black political movements, such as the Black Guerrilla Family, white extremists, and a wealth of little-known archival data, Friedman reveals how America's domestic war against incarcerated blacks embodies and perpetuates models of genocide, imprisonment, and torture abroad.