{"id":3294,"date":"2015-04-02T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveomeara.com\/home\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2015-04-02T13:29:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:29:11","slug":"the-numbers-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daveomeara.com\/home\/3294\/","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a Borges quotation, but it sounds like one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3. Pollsmoor Prison, South Africa<br \/>An elaborately structured prison gang called the Numbers Gang \u2014 and its subgangs, the 26s, 27s and 28s \u2014 plagues the overcrowded Pollsmoor. The Numbers have operated for decades throughout South African prisons, with baroque hierarchies and rituals; its power is so widespread that years of attempts to eradicate the gang have failed.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/29\/magazine\/prison-planet.html?&#038;moduleDetail=section-news-4&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=Magazine&#038;region=Footer&#038;module=MoreInSection&#038;pgtype=article'>Prison Planet &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a Borges quotation, but it sounds like one: 3. Pollsmoor Prison, South AfricaAn elaborately structured prison gang called the Numbers Gang \u2014 and its subgangs, the 26s, 27s and 28s \u2014 plagues the overcrowded Pollsmoor. 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