...Department of corrections, and is now known as one of the most powerful prison gangs in the United States. The Mexican Mafia is well known for their Drug Trafficking, and for their ruthless style of murder. The Mexican Mafia often uses the number thirteen as gang identification, as it represents the thirteenth letter in the alphabet, the letter M. Most of the Mexican Mafia is located in California and Texas. In San Antonio, the Mexican Mafia is responsible for Ten percent of homicide rate (Dufresne, D. 2010. Top Ten Prison Gangs. Retrieved from http://listverse.com). The Mexican Mafia is a gang that is only made up of roughly around one hundred members. Although the gang is small, they are well known for being powerful, and each member holding a significant responsibility with in the gang. Rene Enriquez; a well known Mexican Mafia crew leader, has said that, “ there are three parts of the gang, the Members, the Cabanaras, and the Surenos”.(Montgomery, M. (2012). Gangster Reveals Mexican Mafia Secrets. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/templates). The Members are from the the state prisons, and are a very small group, but are known to be very powerful. They are from the western state prisons and the citizens of the United States. The Cabanaras are known to be “the soldiers” or “the backbone” of the gang. Enriquez says “ they are the doers, and they effectuate most of the Mexican Mafia in society and in prisons”.(Walker, R. 2012. The Debreifing of Rene Enriquez. Retreived from ...
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...FORMATION OF MODERN PRISON Name Course Instructor Name Institution Date Role of Labour Discipline, Time and Space in the Formation of Modern Prison. The jail system began on seventeenth century. It was during this time that the outcasts in the society including the homeless and the poor were segregated and they were enclosed in a particular place on their own (Matthews 2009, 20). This was either done for a period after which they were taken back or it was done permanently where they were supposed to remain on their own forever. This was realised later that it could also act as a form of punishment to those who were identified with general misconduct. There was a shift on the punishment where people stopped giving corporal punishment which included public executions, whipping or shaming which were commonly used to new methods that involved locking out the criminals out of the society on their own. This evolved as a form of punishment where offenders would be deprived their liberty for a specified period. Role of Time The most recent type of crime activity to have developed in UK and all across Europe is the phenomenon of gang activities. Gang activities are believed to have increased especially due to the fact that the crime has been ignored for a long period. However, the olden theories about the origin of the gangs and the sources the gangs acquire their power have been found to be misleading. It has been established that the gang talk has been...
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...10 Prison Subculture and Prison Gang Influence LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Discuss the prison subculture for inmates and correctional officers. 2. Compare importation theory with exportation theory. 3. Identify different aspects of prison culture that explain how offenders and officers view the world around them. 4. Discuss how professionalization and the diversification of correctional staff have impacted the prison subculture. 5. Discuss the impact that prison gangs have had on prisons, including the traditional prison subculture. 6. Identify the 13 gangs listed in this chapter as the primary prison gangs in the United States. 7. Explain what prison systems do to control gang problems that occur in their facilities. chapter I will stand by my brother My brother will come before all others My life is forfeit should I fail my brother I will honor my brother in peace as in war Aryan Brotherhood Oath INTRODUCTION This chapter provides students with a very unique aspect of the world of corrections. Students will learn that within the institutional environment, there is a commonality of experiences that arise between those who are involved; this is true for both inmates and staff. Indeed, many people may not be aware that, in fact, the mind and the world of the inmate often affect the mind-set of security personnel who work with the inmate. In essence, there is an exchange of beliefs and perspectives that often come together to produce a unique fusion...
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...Cristian Loera-Flores CJAD 350 Professor Carden July 4, 2015 Prison Culture Prison, a place that is always on the news, that is always spoken of with great fear or disrespect, a place that can and will change your life forever if you were so inclined to take part in activities that will send you there. There are a lot of events that can get you into prison, but what it’s like on the inside is a whole different story. From the diverse selection of prison gangs that are separated by race and religion, to the frantic “free market trade” that occurs in every prison system across the United States, prison culture has risen past any staff, director, or officer could have ever imagined. Prison culture has taken a life of its own, so much so, that now the general public has become exposed to the integrate and sometimes brutal culture that has been methodically developed since the early days of imprisonment. Time goes hand in hand with the evolution of this culture, refinement through inmate “research and development” has allowed generations of culture, adapt and survive even through staff struggles to stop them. Firstly I would like to discuss the progression of prison culture, where it started, how it evolved, what influenced caused this evolution, and where it is now. Although prison culture dates back to the early 13th centuries, there is very little actually known about their culture and would probably not be seen as the same “jailing” that takes place now. The earliest credible...
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...Prison Gangs Prison Gangs According to (Wikipedia) a prison gang is a term used to identify any type of gang activity in prisons and correctional facilities. The difference between prison gangs and street gangs has become unclear because gang members are in and out of the prison system according to the (Street Gangs and Interventions: Innovative Problem Solving with Network Analysis, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2005). Prison gangs offer more than just simple protection for the members in prison; many prison gangs are responsible for drug, tobacco and other contraband handling. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate other inmates and bribe or intimidate prison staff. Prison gangs are a large influence of organized crime. Prison gangs are also known for laundering money from outside gangs while in prison. The forming of a prison gang is prohibited however; prison gangs are on a rise and without regard of the law prohibiting them. Many of the gang members are already in prison serving very long sentences; when another member is sentence they link up and look out for one another. There are multiple prison gangs in America such as the Aryan Brotherhood, the Nazi Low-riders, La Eme, those are just a few. (American Prison Gangs by Sharon White) According to this article prison gangs are in the Federal prison system and 32 state jurisdictions. There are 29 able to be identified and the prison guards know the member by names. Prison officials have identified 114...
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...Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were two of the most notorious criminals in American history. Throughout 1932 and 1934.They went on a crime spree that terrorized many parts of the South and Midwest. People posted rewards for their arrest. Many law enforcements died violently when they tried to confront Bonnie and Clyde. They created the barrow gang with Clyde's brother Buck and his wife Blanche. In the end, the law caught up to Bonnie and Clyde, and killed them while they were riding in a stolen car. Bonnie and Clyde's biography, crime spree, and death are the more interesting part about them. Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. She was 4'11" in her stocking feet, and weighed around 90 pounds. She got married at married young, at age 16. For money, she was forced to become a waitress. Bored and poor, she knew life had something more to offer. Clyde Chestnut Barrow was born in 1909 in Texas. He stood 5'7", weighed 130 pounds, slicked back his thick brown hair in the style of the day, and parted it on the left. His eye color matched his hair. Women found him attractive. He came into this world as one of many children born to dirt-poor tenant farmer parents barely making a living on the cotton fields of Teleco, Texas. Moving with his parents, brothers and sisters to the Dallas outskirts, where his father ran a gas station (in which the family members crowded as one into a tiny back room), Clyde quickly learned to abhor poverty. Bored and...
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...by material possessions and monetary success. This opportunity is often blocked by this gulf, making it impossible to obtain. Throughout the United States the rise of gangs continue to plague rural, suburban, and urban communities. There is a devastating expansion of street gangs as of 2011, and there are becoming more sophisticated in the operations of drug trafficking and prostitution. Today’s gangs are becoming more organized and opportunistic with advanced technology to recruit new members each and every day. According to the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) there are roughly 33,000 gangs in America, 1.4 million gang members of the prison, street, and One Percenter OMG’s motorcycle gangs. There gangs are known in the Northeast and Southeast states of America (Adler, 1995). It is important to explore the way gangs are influenced by the cultural risk factors practiced in society, limited conditions lead to an alternative lifestyle, and the roles law enforcement and policymakers are identifying factors that destabilize neighborhoods. Gangs have plagued the streets of American for roughly 200 years as of today. Many of these gangs were immigrants that relocated to the United States to end up living in poverty. These youth members formed these gangs as a form of socialization and protection. These gangs compromised of members of the same race and...
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...Gangs in the United States James C Vincent II Metro State University of Denver Abstract Gangs are not really addressed a lot. The criminal justice system really doesn’t have a big effective way to combat gangs or gang violence. You can arrest people that are affiliated with gang related things but there will always be someone behind them. Gangs in the United States today only serve 3 purposes. To protect, make money and gain power. As long as there is one of those variables available someone will always be up for anything. The youth are the most important in this factor because they are the future of our society. I don’t personally agree with the current solution of incarceration of minors. If there was another way that involves turning their lives around, I personally believe less of our youth will be recruited. There was an after school program for troubled youth but it has been shut down due to funding. If there was some type of big organization to stop development of gangs and recruiting this would not be a problem. Gangs are in every city of every state and one of the leading causes of some type of crime. The system fails to realize the true cause of gangs. Without knowing anything about gangs there will not be a solution to the violence or crimes. There are some things that are obvious. For example, there are more minorities in the gangs in the United States. While that...
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...fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old. Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone was a Five Points Gang member who became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago and became bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol--the forerunner of the Outfit--and that was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana. A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, but his mutually profitable relationships with mayor William Hale Thompson and the city's police meant Capone seemed safe from law enforcement. Apparently reveling in the attention, such as the cheers when he appeared at ball games, Capone made donations to various charities and was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood". However, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of gang rivals from the North Side Gang damaged Chicago's image, leading influential citizens to demand governmental action. The federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone and prosecuted him for tax evasion in 1931. The case was highly politicized and both prosecutors and judge...
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...Tina Huang CRJ 112 Professor Gutierrez July 6, 2016 Shakur Summary The book “Monster” by Sanyika Shakur also known as Kody Scott, is an autobiography of an L.A. Gang member. It is a story that narrates how he joined a gang, specifically the Eight Tray Gangster Crips and why it seemed appealing to him at the young age of eleven. Some notable themes found in the book include power and violence. In the long thirteen years as a notorious gang member, he lived life by killing friends and shooting enemies (ex. other Crips/Bloods), selling drugs, committing robberies, and frequently experiencing police brutality. As it became a known routine and comfortable cycle, as the years went by, he realized that gang life was not what he wanted...
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...MADE IN PRISON: SOCIAL JUSTICE OR INJUSTICE by CLASS TITLE CLASS NO. # PROFESSOR NAME SCHOOL NAME DATE TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY 3 PROBLEM 3 BACKGROUND 4 DISCUSSION 5 CONCLUSIONS 7 WORKS CITED AND REFERNECES 8 SUMMARY MADE IN PRISON! How would you like to see this stamped on the bottom of one of your kids toys? This is reality. For thousands of years prisoners throughout the world have been subjected to prison labor. Whether it is the building of the Egyptian Pyramids or the chain gangs of the Deep South, the convenience of prison labor has not been overlooked. In our current social dilemma, we see a labor force that is being bolstered behind the heavy-steel gates, mountainous walls, and razor-sharp bobbed wire fences. More and more, private industry along with public-and-private correctional facilities are joining forces to create jobs for inmates, while at the same time increasing profits for private organizations. Some may argue that prison labor is a legitimate form of retribution to society, but there are the others that believe that a forced or coerced prison labor force is a sign of modern day slavery. PROBLEM What exists here is a dilemma between justice and the perception of justice. Prisons and jails continue to overcrowd and the population of inmates is now somewhere in the two million range (Atkinson p. 1). Society is seeking retribution for the crimes...
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...Have you ever been afraid to go to the grocery store alone? Have you ever felt like you were being watched, or someone was following you? There’s a reason why, there are women and children being robbed of their freedom every day. In simple places like your local grocery store or movie theatre there could be someone waiting to take you from your normal life and sell you into slavery. Because of expanding gang activity and devastated families we should enforce more ways to identify the people involved in human trafficking. Though slavery was abolished many years ago in the United States, there are still several forms that exist today. One form that is on the rise is human trafficking, according to Joyce Hart this is what it looks like. “Human trafficking is the term that is used for modern day slavery. Some people are physically...
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...study analysis: Violent or Forcible Assaults talks about prison inmates being raped while being imprisoned. During these rapes, the prisoners or inmates are subject to violent forceful sexual attacks. Many of these attacks are often leave the prisoner with concussions, broken bones, deep wounds, and other serious injuries. While these rapes are reported, many of them were overlooked or not investigated because of the amount of reported cases and no evidence to prove the allegations. During these attacks on prisoners, there was only one case reported that turn into a deadly situation in Texas. Another case was reported about prison rape and brought the victim and his rapist into the same room together. As a result of this confrontation the prisoner was subject to more rape and almost killed while in front of other prisoners in the day room. Inmates have later reported that there have been gang rapes that consisted of them being held down against their will and raped by four and up to eight perpetrators. Prisoners say during that time they would be threatened by a weapon and verbal threats of killing them if they would not corporate or tell authorities. Inmates being assaulted against their will can be found in most any area, however, the main areas are found in inmate sleeping areas. Showers, bathrooms, and other areas that allow more privacy are also where they are subject to occur. According to the definition prison are long-time confinement facilities designed to hold...
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...II 30 March 2014 The Missing Piece What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words ‘Bonnie and Clyde’? Could it be misunderstood modern-day Romeo and Juliet? How about psychopathic murderers who took pleasure in the pain and suffering of others? Regardless of how the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde depicts their relationship, more to the story exists than what was shown on camera. The duo is remembered today as being relentless and crime-crazed, but the real Bonnie Parker was nothing like her partner Clyde Barrow. In fact, historical evidence reveals that Bonnie was just in it to achieve attention from her first husband Roy and fill the void of his absence by accompanying Clyde in his murdering and bank robbing sprees. It is evident from the very beginning of the movie that Bonnie tended to throw herself on Clyde; he was a stranger stealing her mom’s car, and she immediately joined him in his endeavors without hesitation. Under normal circumstances, a young woman would call the police for or at least run away from the robber. This shows that she was desperate for adventure and that she had an abyss of emptiness in her heart. ‘From what?’ you may ask. At the age of sixteen, Bonnie married a man named Roy Thornton who is said to have been a “roaming husband with a roaming mind.” He was sent to prison for five years on account of robbery and left Bonnie with a broken, lonely heart (Ballinger). When Clyde found her in the movie, Bonnie was a waitress with...
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...The Growth Of Gangs Gang: A formal or informal ongoing organization, association, or group that has as one of its primary activities the commission of criminal or delinquent acts, and that consists of three or more persons who have a common name or common identifying signs, colors, or symbols and have two or more members who, individually or collectively, engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal street gang activity. The key to the any gang definition is the phrase, "engage in criminal activity" or other similar wording. There are many legitimate fraternal groups, boys and girls clubs, sports teams and other organizations that have a common name and who may wear a particular uniform or articles of clothing. The first sight of gangs in Western Civilization was in 1873. Documentation of the existence of gangs in England during the 17th century and we speculate gangs may have been around earlier in the mother country. It does not appear though that gangs back then had any similar features of modern day street gangs. Organized gang crimes didn’t emerge until the 1600s. This is when gangs started wearing ribbons to distinguish themselves, and started terrorizing cities and people. Street gangs in the United States began with their presence on the East Coast around 1783. Nothing to serious until the 19th century did gangs really emerge. Four major regions of the United States began emerging quickly these were the Northeast, Midwest, West and South the reason...
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