Essays on Prison Gangs

The prison has become a much more dangerous place since the coming in power of California’s big four gangs. Prisoners are being forced into doing their bidding while they involve these unwilling participants in drug trafficking, contraband smuggling, and assaults. The same is what professor Vasquez says in lecture 2 for week 1, that if they order a crime; the inmates have to get it done. In case they refuse, they have to face ‘consequences’. The urgency to take action on these prison gang members is because they have the power to be extremely notorious and they never ...

Gangs are another form of expressing dominance and control over one’s rights and beliefs, and a prison gang is made as a last resort to expressing these emotions since an incarcerated individual has no other likely choice. The absence of female gangs is a resultant of the operatives of a female mind. While incarcerated males have a need of expressing their domination in one way or the other, females, on the other hand, are devoid of such feelings. Moreover, gangs are a source of gratification of a set of people’s beliefs and ideas, and this is satisfied ...

Nuestra Familia is a criminal organisation of Chicano or Mexican prison gang with origins in North California. Today, it is described as the California’s worst Hispanic prison gangs that has gotten the opportunity to develop both within and outside the state’s prison system. Fundamentally, this group of gangs started at vocational institution at the state of California with an initial name of La Familia in September 1967. Eventually, La Neustria Familia became the new name of the organization after the gang founders decided to change the name. In reality, many Americans view this gang group as closely ...

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Prison gang is different from a street gang in that its primary aim is to secure the prisoners from being hurt by other prisoners or by the wardens (Voeten, 2013, n. p.). However, as the history shows, the prison gangs have altered their original targets and now they are getting control over the system of law outside the prison. The most threatening of all prison gangs is the Mexican Mafia, also called La Eme (the Spanish letter "m") (Valdemar, 2010, n. p.), which appeared in the 1950s (Morales, 2008, n. p.). What ...

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The Mexican Mafia or La eMe is a ruthless California prison gang. Formed in the 1950s initially to stay safe inside the prison complex especially from the violence perpetrated by other gangs. The La eMe comprised of a small band of gang leaders of other gangs. This gang at present has allegiance with over one thousand street gangs in Los Angeles alone. The La eMe imposes a code of conduct for other gang members to follow. In addition, it takes a tax for protection purposes. The prison gang operates based on a separate code. The contents include lifetime membership, ...

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According to Campbell (2014), an innate undergoes several assessment concerning his or her physical and mental health, program needs and custody level. Most importantly, inmates are evaluated base on his or her security level, whether he or she may be particularly vulnerable to a other inmates, or if he or she belongs to a security threat group (STG) that may pose future problem for the safety and stability of the correctional system. Most often, prison gangs are considered as a security threat group. These groups are known to take part in various activities that are against prison rules and ...