representations of crime in popular media serve to perpetuate racial stereotypes as well. offenders of color, including women, are often portrayed as violent, hypersexual, or drug-addicted. while this is true of women of color in the general prison population as well as those held in solitary confinement, there is a particularly strong culture of fear that is built up around segregation units and the prisoners who are held there. inmates who appear to belong to particular minority groups are often profiled by prison guards as more likely to be dangerous, violent, or involved in a gang, and therefore are moved into isolation; for example, prisoners who speak a language other than english are sometimes targeted as foreign and therefore gang-involved or dangerous.