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Gangs in Prison
Thesis statement: Gangs in prison tend to have both constructive and undesirable impacts on the society, victims, and offenders.
- Introduction
- Detailed history of gangs in prison
- The impact of prison gangs on the society
- The impact of prison gangs on offenders and victims
- The consequences or problems of gangs in prison
- The positive elements of gangs in prison
- The alternative approach for reducing gangs in prison
- Policy changes that would help reduce gangs in prison
- Conclusion
- A discussion of the overview of gangs in prison
- Mentioning of what will be addressed in the essay of gangs in prison such as
- The impacts that gangs in prisons have on society, victims and offenders
- The consequences or problems that are associated with gangs in prisons
- The positive elements of gangs in prison
- Description and definition of what prison gangs are to get a picture of the issue that is being discussed (Brotherton, 2016).
- A brief history of how gangs in prison began through focusing on the year that it began and what facilitated them to emerge.
- The reasons that propagate prisoners to join gangs after being sent to prison by the courts.
- The structure and organization of prison gangs from how they are organized and also managed.
- To get more organized and structured protection because of the insecurity and harassment that exists in the prisons.
- To have the opportunity and space to sell illicit and illegal substances within the facility.
- Increases the consumption of harmful and illegal drugs in the community mainly among the young people.
- They also tend to influence violence in the society mostly because of influencing people who get out prison.
- Forming of gangs in the society by those prisoners and inmates that have been released after serving several years in prison.
- Creation of conflict between inmates and prisoners especially when there are disagreements and arguments.
- Offenders and victims sustain injuries because of conflicts that may emerge in the prisons especially between gangs (Mitchell, Fahmy, Pyrooz and Decker, 2017).
- It also leads to deaths of offenders and victims when there are immense conflicts between the gangs in prison.
- The increase of assaults and attacks in prisons especially on the inmates or prisoners that do not belong to any gangs.
- Increase of drug abuse and consumption in the prisons because the gangs tend to supply inmates with drugs
- They usually tend to dictate how every inmate in prison will behave mostly because of the influence and power they have in the prisons.
- They also, in general, make the lives of normal inmates to be very stressful and hard mostly because of harassment and torture.
- Promotion of racism and discrimination in the prisons because of the different opinions of gangs
- The prison gangs help in regulating things like alcohol and cell phones among other things.
- They also help in keeping order in the prison especially when there are no disagreements between the gangs
- They also help in resolving conflicts in prison mostly because they tend to control a lot of inmates and prisoners.
- Most gangs in prisons also help in creating respect as they help in ensuring the inmates engage in legitimate activities
- They also become a substitute family for inmates and prisoners who have no contact with their relatives or families (Tapia, Sparks and Miller, 2014).
- Ensuring that prisoners have more contact with their families and relatives which will help in refraining them from joining gangs.
- Suppressing and isolating the gang leaders with the other prisoners mainly through segregating them.
- Reducing the number of prisoners in a particular prison facility mainly through the government building more prison facilities.
- The government should also build more security housing units where the leaders of the prison gangs would be settled.
- Changing rules patriating to prisoners or inmates who will be found to have created their own gangs.
- Developing a policy that would encourage people to leave gangs such as reducing sentences for those prisoners that are not involved with gangs.
- Creating a policy where inmates are on a probation of approximately three to four years for their sentences to be taken into consideration.
- An overview of everything that has been presented about the issue of gangs in prison.
- A closing statement on the issue that has been discussed.
Reference
Brotherton, D. C. (2016). The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System.
Mitchell, M. M., Fahmy, C., Pyrooz, D. C., & Decker, S. H. (2017). Criminal Crews, Codes, and Contexts: Differences and Similarities across the Code of the Street, Convict Code, Street Gangs, and Prison Gangs. Deviant Behavior, 38(10), 1197-1222.
Tapia, M., Sparks, C. S., & Miller, J. M. (2014). Texas Latino prison gangs: an exploration of generational shift and rebellion. The Prison Journal, 94(2), 159-179.
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Gangs in Prison
Introduction
When an individual mention about prison gangs, what comes into one’s mind is chaotic
bands of racist or even violent thugs. Prison gangs refer to inmate organizations whose
membership is restrictive, have existed in perpetuity, and mostly requires a personal lifetime
commitment. Few people have the thought of gangs as refined organizations. In this light, most
people do not think of prison gangs as units that control the prison black market, settle conflicts,
and balance the inmate’s demands among other things (Skarbek 710). Apparently, gang units
meet the demands of correctional officers or even adjust the competitive demands of their gang
members. According to Skarbek’s argument, gangs form a unit to create order in the midst of
outlaws and create alternative institutions of governance to propagate illegal activities. The
secretive societies of inmates’ culture and gang politics are the reason why people form gangs
and have the influence of power beyond the prisons and over crime. This paper extends the
beyond the tragic and irrational captives society (Skarbek 714). Primarily, gangs in prison tend to
have both constructive and undesirable impacts on the community, victims, and offenders.
History of gangs in prison
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Prison gangs emerged during the 1950s when the groups became dominant in the
correctional facilities in America. As Lyman defines, prison gang is an organization that operates
within the system of the prison as a self-preserving crime oriented entity, which comprises of a
group with an established chain of command and code of conduct. Historically, prisoners as
social groups operate within the prison setting and interplays between the street and prison gangs
(Fleisher, Mark & Decker 3). To understand the history and study of prison gangs requires a
broader understanding of their demographics and distribution in various American prisons. The
first prison gang revealed in American history was Gypsy Jokers whose formation took place in
the Washington state prisons during the in the 1950s. The strength of such prison gangs such as
Gypsy Jokers depends on the numbers of their membership. Apparently, about a hundred and
thirteen gangs existed in 1985 with thirteen thousand active members in the American prisons.
By the year 2002, approximately three hundred thousand prisoners had an affiliation to inmate
groups. As much as the numbers of prison gang member do not include directly involved
members such as visitors, some people smuggle drugs and engage in illegal trade thereby
influencing the gangs to become powerful and influential (Fleisher et al. 3).
The emergence of prison gangs was much less of a peaceful affair. Most severe cases of
prison gangs relate to the responsibility of jails misconduct, assault of fellow inmates, drug
trafficking, intimidation of staff and sexual misbehavior. Furthermore, the prison groups have
had to expand their reach to the street level market in drug trafficking among other illicit trade.
By far, the inmate organizations continues to be a threat to the administration of American prison
by academics and staff alike. Despite the history of violence, prison gangs are organized and
highly structured collectives with strict internal rules and hierarchies with complete settings
(Fleisher et al. 4).
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Structure and Organization of Prison gangs
Prison gangs have much in common with any other organization. Foremost, prison gangs have a
structure that usually has one individual who acts as the designated leader that overlooks the
council of its members and makes final decisions for its members. In essence, the structure of
prison gangs has ranks, which forms a hierarchy to make it look like an organized crime as
compared to various gangs distinct from...
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