Nevertheless, when you get to prison you cant just choose what group you want to join. For example, if you’re white you’ll join a white gang, if you’re black, Hispanic etc you’ll get together with the same race inside of the prison. However, there is also a different if you’re from the north, or south too. Skarbek also mentions that ones you join a gang in prison, it’s a thing that you’ll stay a part of until you get out because you can’t just leave your gang. Before I watched this video I thought that gangs were created for violence though and promoted it. However, when I watched the video my thoughts were determined. Since gangs had been created the violence in prison had gone down significantly compared to how it was before. Other interesting facts and statistics that he brought up was that the prison gangs weren’t as common as before due to the population inside of the
Nevertheless, when you get to prison you cant just choose what group you want to join. For example, if you’re white you’ll join a white gang, if you’re black, Hispanic etc you’ll get together with the same race inside of the prison. However, there is also a different if you’re from the north, or south too. Skarbek also mentions that ones you join a gang in prison, it’s a thing that you’ll stay a part of until you get out because you can’t just leave your gang. Before I watched this video I thought that gangs were created for violence though and promoted it. However, when I watched the video my thoughts were determined. Since gangs had been created the violence in prison had gone down significantly compared to how it was before. Other interesting facts and statistics that he brought up was that the prison gangs weren’t as common as before due to the population inside of the