San Quentin State Prison

4.1 Prison Gangs There is a challenge in the control and management of facilities where prison gangs operate. According to Sharon, prison gangs are groups of criminals that operate inside the prison system. Also, prison gangs are capable of perpetuating their criminal activities outside the confines of the prison. They normally act as a link between drug traffickers and street gangs. The membership to a prison gang is normally restrictive. Therefore, an oath to commit to the gang is taken…

with his parents and four siblings. His father was often violent and abusive, causing Ramirez to frequently run away from home. Due to distance between Ramirez and his family, he became close with his cousin, Mike. Mike was a soldier for the United States Army and was responsible for introducing the young boy to a life of crime (Philbin 154). Ramirez was only fifteen when he dropped out of high school and later left home when he was eighteen. He moved to Los Angeles and lived with his older…

gangs for years have established their power inside the United States federal and state prison systems, and have developed into organized crime syndicates who control rackets inside and outside of prisons. These gangs pose a major threat to the prison system and have become a difficult task to control or disassemble. Gangs across the United States represent different things but each are just as dangerous as the next. In most prisons it is easy to recognize which gang an inmate is associated…

landscape by prisons to produce a series of thirty-three landscape paintings of these institutions and their surroundings” (14), Angela Davis describes in her introduction to Are Prisons Obsolete? Through the eyes of Davis, Birk’s paintings reveal our ideologies about prison. Birk uses location, appearance, and natural setting to help focus that lens. The use of these techniques, along with others, helps enhance the reader’s ideologies of prison that focus on isolation, taking prisons for…

In 1776, the United States became a nation of independence and truth and though that truth stood on what the forefathers built this great country on, the U.S. has been lacking some things that need to not exist into today’s society. America’s social status has not change on how the nation deals with the legalizing of the law and how to properly execute righteous judgment. It seems as though that more and more each day, the United States is locking up people with not enough substantial evidence…

The Aryan Brotherhood had small beginnings within the California state prison systems, but it has since grown into one of the most powerful white supremacist gangs in the world. PUT CITATIONS HERE The Aryan Brotherhood was formed in 1964 by an Irish biker gang in the San Quentin Prison as a method of protection during a period of desegregation of the prison system, which had caused many violent altercations between inmates. The recruits go through a “boot camp” where they do things like physical…

national crime syndicate. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the gang was founded in San Quentin State Prison, California in 1964 by white supremacists Barry Milles and Tyler Bingham as a form of protection for white inmates in newly desegregated prisons, and is today’s oldest, largest and deadliest prison gang in the United States. With an estimated 20,000 members and increasing both inside prisons and on the streets. Their motto is “blood in, blood out”, which means “one is in for…

Beginning construction in 1878, Folsom Prison located in California came to be due to a decision made by California legislature in 1858. The decision to build a new prison was made because of “ serious overcrowding in San Quentin”( “Folsom Prison Museum Brochure” 1). With being one of the first maximum security prisons in the Nation, Folsom has a rich and impeccable history. In the beginning it had 1,700 cells, the walls were approximately 8’ by 4’ in size. The doors on the cells were solid…

The death penalty is a controversial topic in the U.S. Some states have the death penalty while other states do not. There are more pros than cons when it comes to why the death penalty should be implemented in cases that involve heinous acts such as murder and like crimes. such crimes are especially heinous and deserve the worst punishment able to be given. Justice must be served for the families of victims of heinous acts much like rape and/or murder, the death penalty will help the victim…

under correctional supervision in the United States - more than were in Stalin’s gulags” (1). He gives us a comparison between the Soviet prison and American prison. At first I did not know who Ivan Denisovich was until I did some research and read that it was a character from a novel written by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn the story about Soviet labor camps in the 1950s. Furthermore, Mr. Gopnik continues by putting himself inside the American prison, stating that time does not exists like…