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Chapter 8 Security Threat Groups and Prison Gangs
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Evidence-Based Classification System
Prison Officials response to Gangs
A practical criminological procedure intended to identify the behavioral chracterisitics of certain offenders and use those attributes to classify inmates as gang members or not..
- Use of inmate informants
- Use of segregation Units
- Transfer to Super-Max facilities
- Isolation of prison gang leaders
- Lockdown of entire institutions
- Prosecution of criminal acts committed by prison gang members
- New restrictions on benefits for prison misconduct
Chapter 8 Security Threat Groups and Prison Gangs
Type of Offenders Categories
Who Resort to Violence
- Antisocial Offenders- habit of using force and coercion to get what they want.
- Special-needs offenders- those with physical or mental deficiencies.
- Psychopathic offenders- are predatory, cold and calculating and usually act violently for no good reason....
Prison Gangs
U.S. Department of Justice recommends the following actions to monitor gang members:
Some current major prison gangs:
- Aryan Brotherhood
- Mexican Mafia
- Texas Syndicate
- La Nuestra Familia
- Black Guerilla Family
- posted picture file- data file.
- confidential reports
- Gang communications
- Identify gang visitors
- Gang control efforts- dominate
- any physical area...
The Influence that STG's exert on Correctional Staff
Ability of S TG members to intimdate, neutralize and corrupt correctional staff contributes to rules not being enforced,
- special concessions to STG
- under threats many officers yield to corruption to preserve their lives.
Prison Gangs
Institutional Gang Investigator
Gang Validation Process
Prison Gangs or Security Threat Groups
Were first identified in California in the early 1960's when prison administrators realized that many of the problems were the result of gangs who intimidated staff, inmates, promoted violence and the drug market were being controlled and coordinated by organized group of inmates.
Is trained to gather information on institutional STG's and individuals and propose isolation or control of such so as to neutralize potential disruptive behavior.
Are groups that form in prison and use the threat of violence and intimidate other inmates, control drug sales and prostitution, gang power and influence.....
Requires several identifiers of a gang activity used to confirm individuals' gang involvement level.
1. Inmate self-admission.
2. Membership List
3.Photographs
4. Correspondence from other gang
members.