I would do anything necessary to avoid prison. Move to another country, fake my own death, plastic surgery, you name it I’d do it. If I couldn’t avoid going on the inside, I would immediately request solitary confinement, and if that didn’t work I’d act like a complete psycho (rub feces all over my body, convert to Christianity, whatever else I can think of that would give the impression I had lost my mind), in hopes of serving my sentence as far away from ‘gen pop’(general population) as possible. It seems if you don’t belong to a prison gang you have a much smaller chance of survival; I am “bi-racial”, so I wouldn’t be accepted by either the Aryan Brotherhood or the Mexican Mafia (or whatever other Anglo/Latino gangs infest San Quentin). Even if I was accepted by a gang, I am a peaceful person by nature, so it would quickly become evident I was unsuitable for their organization. Even in a prison gang, you are constantly victimized by the shotcallers; they have nothing to lose since they’re already Lifers – they could care less about the repercussions that may result. From their perspective no action is too extreme – if you don’t follow orders, they’ll kill you without a second thought.
So…yeah, I would do anything to avoid prison.