Prison Gangs In Prison Case Study

Some of the challenges that prison gangs face are confrontations against other group of gangs who are ready to fight, stab, and even beat you to death. Many prisoners believe that joining a gang will protect them from any harm and dangers they are vulnerable to facing in a prison. Most of the gang members have a tattoo symbol on their body, which represents their group. Gangs always hang out with their partners or other ‘teammates’; they feel like being in groups is the safest way to hang out in order to protect one another. If anybody ever says something about any of the gang secrets, the gang will immediately find out who it is and kill them for their betrayal. The gang does not care if they get in trouble; they believe they are doing the right thing by killing the person who betrayed them. Other challenges they …show more content…
Rosalio Reta was a Mexican drug cartel hit man who was from Laredo. He was first hired to kill someone at the age of 13 and was convicted for all his illegal crimes until July 28, 2006, at the age of 17 (CNN). Reta was caught in Mexico and was sentenced to 30 years in a Mexican prison. His involvement in criminal gangs continued even when he was in prison. The Mexican Drug Cartel, who he was involved with, was a very powerful gang whose power had (and still has) no limits. During Reta’s stay in the Mexican prison, he was informed he was being looked to kill by his former gang because during his interrogation, he confessed many of the plans that the gang was planning to do. This terrified him to such extreme where he ended requesting to be transferred to an American prison. But in order for his request to be approved, he had to confess any crime that he committed while he was living in Laredo. He admitted to killing Moises Garcia while he was sitting in his car (Buch). This confession approved his request and was later on transferred to an American