This episodes raises some challenging issues:

 if guards are letting incompatible prisoners into proximity of each other where they know or ought to know that violence will result, is it right that a prisoner defending himself should be charged with assault?what is the liability of the guards if they deliberately or negligently brought incompatible prisoners together?why are prisoners perceived to be at high risk not given enhanced programming prior to release back to communities rather than none?why would CSC wait until  the charges of assault were being resolved in court to bring forward a year-old weapons charge?the prisoner suspects that  his race may have had something to do with this unhelpful release from prison