Gang Activities
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Introduction Gangs in prison developed for a various reasons including for solidarity, power, and self-defense. They were all established by inmates with a complex and highly organized structure. These organizations inmates related with each other according to gang affiliation instead of as an individual. Prisoners were therefore absorbed in the prisons gang structure. There large numbers and solidarity made it difficult for staff to manage and control the inmates. Prison control weakened and a relationship between staff and inmates was replaced by gang-staff relationships, gang leaders acquired complete control over distribution of prison cores discriminating against non-members. Today these prison gangs are still a challenge to the normal functioning of the prison having prisoners disrespecting and forming affiliations with prison personnel. The paper discusses the activities of the Aryan brothers, the folks ,Ms 13, the Islam nation and the Ku Klux Klan, where they are geographical concentration and the threat they pose to social and national security. The Aryan Brotherhood Also known as the AB or brand, the gang was founded by an inmate at the San Quentin Prison in California 1967 and presently has spread to almost all prisons including. Its structure composed of a highly organized chain of command made up of the president, vice president, captains from each prison, lieutenants representing each housing unit, sergeants, sergeant at arms, soldiers, enforcers and probates respectively. Membership was only made up of white supremacists with an aim of protecting white inmates from assault and rape from black American inmates. They conducted their
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Instructor
Date
Introduction Gangs in prison developed for a various reasons including for solidarity, power, and self-defense. They were all established by inmates with a complex and highly organized structure. These organizations inmates related with each other according to gang affiliation instead of as an individual. Prisoners were therefore absorbed in the prisons gang structure. There large numbers and solidarity made it difficult for staff to manage and control the inmates. Prison control weakened and a relationship between staff and inmates was replaced by gang-staff relationships, gang leaders acquired complete control over distribution of prison cores discriminating against non-members. Today these prison gangs are still a challenge to the normal functioning of the prison having prisoners disrespecting and forming affiliations with prison personnel. The paper discusses the activities of the Aryan brothers, the folks ,Ms 13, the Islam nation and the Ku Klux Klan, where they are geographical concentration and the threat they pose to social and national security. The Aryan Brotherhood Also known as the AB or brand, the gang was founded by an inmate at the San Quentin Prison in California 1967 and presently has spread to almost all prisons including. Its structure composed of a highly organized chain of command made up of the president, vice president, captains from each prison, lieutenants representing each housing unit, sergeants, sergeant at arms, soldiers, enforcers and probates respectively. Membership was only made up of white supremacists with an aim of protecting white inmates from assault and rape from black American inmates. They conducted their
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