Prison gang

The Gang Life Most gangs in the society are violent, some more than others. Gangs do not tend to be very appealing to others in the world that is today. Gangs have been an issue in the world from then and even now, it has become more dangerous in the streets and society throughout the world. Gangs do not obey the law or authorities; they simply do what they please. Gangs are a major issue in the way people live their lives. A large majority of the inmates at Pelican Bay belong to one of these…

According to Pettit and Western (2004) “The U.S. penal population increased six fold between 1972 and 2000, leaving 1.4 million men in state and federal prisons by the end of the century”(p. 151). This enormous prison population makes the U.S prison population the largest in the world as of today. The prison population explosion that happened during the time period of 1972-2000 was caused by many factors, however this population was disproportionately that of minorities. During the 1980’s…

Numbers Gang Oral Report “This is the day that you sign your death wish. You could die today, tomorrow, you could die anytime.” This was said to a man when he got his tattoo to represent he was a new member. Normally, when someone joins a gang, they don't realize that they are giving up their safety. Not only are their gangs all over the streets, there are many malignant gang affiliations in prisons. At Pollsmoor prison, you have to belong to a numbers gang to survive. Pollsmoor prison is…

worship him” and then calls the prison a “Southern chain gang”. He comments on the fact that Luke must be brave if he disrespects the prison staff and even has the courage to escape. Ebert portrays Luke as always smiling and is a cool hand because of his stunts; one of his stunts being fifty eggs to eat which Ebert expresses is a bet for money. The 1967 review states that the gang leader is “a slack-jawed hillbilly” and that he lives through Luke when he escapes the prison. The author then…

Blood running down cristian body while getting stabbed 40 times by local gang members with a machete, Christian an 18 year old boy trying to run away from a gang, because they were in search of killing him. Cristian was pulled into the woods by a young lady who promised him sex if he came into the woods, but little did he know it was all a plan three gang members came out of the bushes, hold him down and stabbed him repeatedly 40 times to make sure he was completely dead, Christian was killed…

courses while in prison. Many of these inmates have done terrible things like murder, robbery at gunpoint, or rape. Many of the owners or operators,of business, are not going to hire these types of people. Why would someone hire a person of robbery to work at their convenience store? Then, there would be no use of a degree. But people who have done something…

Later that afternoon word came in that johnny’s gang was camping out in a cave 1.5 miles west. So the Sheriff and John thought that they could sneak attack them at night. So they took some volunteers to help catch the gang and two men said they will help catch them. Later that night they started to ride off after the outlaws, along the way the killed a jack rabbit to eat for dinner.…

The United States have offered different definition of gang activity. According to the federal law defines criminal gangs as’ “criminal street gang” as “an ongoing group, club, organization, or association of 5 or more persons; (A) That has as 1 of its primary purposes the commission of 1 or more of the criminal offenses described in subsection (c); (B) the members of which engage, or have engaged within the past 5 years, in a continuing series of offenses described in subsection (c); and (C)…

Chicago gangs has been around since early century, more and more small group of gangs in small number of neighborhoods has spark an increase of homicide in 2012. Since 1990s, crime and violence was primarily by large gang activities, however, much of the large group member has split forming smaller individual groups, resulting a continues disputes and gang battles. Both authors, Andrew Papachristo and David Kirk, studies how Chicago Police Department uses Violence Reduction Strategy (VRS) to…

other actor, He drew me into his character and the whole movie. Having worked in the prison system and then fifteen years in the county jail I could name at least 200 men and even women who I witnessed struggled with the gang mentality of the Arian Brotherhood. Even after their release quite a few made it years without reverting back to the old ways, some re-entered the prison system and others perished from gang violence. I could have easily have been in Derek’s shoes while growing up in the…