Prisoners experience the central divide as guards-versus-prisoners, not race.

Evidence

Ricardo: There wasn’t that much racism in prison, it was more from the screws [prison guards]. Everyone is in it together in jail, it doesn’t matter what colour of your skin, you’re all the same, it’s not about race, it wasn’t like that, it was more the officers that would try and be racist. We’re all under the same thing, all in prison, all have a release date, all having the same food, all sharing the same water, all doing everything the same. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 68

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the usual race-first analysis the reader applies to policing and borders; an inmate’s own phenomenology names the carceral state, not fellow racialised prisoners, as the real antagonist.
• DEEPTHINKING: A First-person testimony that quietly upends race-as-primary-axis assumptions and reorients solidarity around shared bodily vulnerability under state power.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 68