Mobsters back then weren't paying for protection. Carmine Galante once walked up to a black guy in prison and told him, Get off the phone you fucking ni**er, or something like that. Anyway, Italians are severely outnumbered in prison I don't even think the white prison gangs would recruit them.
That was in 1974,Gotti did the same thing and was punched. Scarfo sr when was in terre haute prison for 2 years paid the mexicans for the protection,stop watching Goodfellas.
In the prison there are only sharks and count the numbers a thing is if a young wiseguy can fight and another if is a old man. Be white dont means that every white will protect you.
