#prison documentary

Gangs in Prison National Geographic Documentary Full HD  -The Most Dangerous Prison In USA [2016 HD]

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A prison gang is an inmate organization that operates within a prison system, that has a corporate entity, exists into perpetuity, and whose membership is restrictive, mutually exclusive, and often requires a lifetime commitment.[1] Prison officials and others in law enforcement use the euphemism "security threat group" (or "STG"). The concept for this name is to take away the recognition and publicity that the term "gang" connotes when referring to people who have an interest in undermining the system. The convict code and informal governance of prisons[edit] Before the rise of large, formal prison gangs, political scientists and researchers found that inmates had already organized around an understood "code" or set of norms. For example, political scientist Gresham Sykes, in, The Society of Captives, a study based on the New Jersey State Prison, claims that, "conformity to, or deviation from, the inmate code is the major basis for classifying and describing the social relations of prisoners".[2] Prisoners achieved a social equilibrium around unwritten rules; the code may include and understanding of jail yard territory based on rank or ethnicity, or simply loyalty between inmates, and against guards. Sykes writes that inmates may, "bind himself to his fellow captives with ties of mutual aid, loyalty, affection, and respect, firmly standing in opposition to the officials."[2] Hostility between wardens and prisoners, restrained freedom, and, some argue, the lack of access to heterosexual relationships, thus shaped prison social environment and political dynamics.

Rising prison populations and the emergence of formal gangs[edit] When researchers or political scientists discuss "classic prison gangs", they are referring to prison gangs in the United States, which began to form in the mid 1960's.[1] Around this time, across the prison system, there was a large increase in prison population.[3]

As prison populations grew, the informal convict code was no longer enough to coordinate and protect inmates. First, the constant surge of prisoners coming into the system, with no understanding of the status quo, disrupted the established equilibrium cohesion. Also, as the demographics inside prison changed drastically, small groupings centered on ethnicity, race and pre-prison alliances were disrupted. John Irwin, in Prisons in Turmoil, writes that by 1970, "there [was] no longer a single, overarching convict culture."[4]

Furthermore, as the prison population grew, so did the consumer-base for contraband items, including drugs and weapons, but also items that are legal outside of prison (such as money, alcohol, tattoos, etc.) but illegal to trade within prisons. Several challenges arose to destabilize the socio-political system of self-enforced cooperation that existed under the just the convict code. These new conditions posed complications to consumer-supplier relationships in the already distrustful environment of an underground economy. It grew harder and harder for independent, individual suppliers to accommodate this increased demand. Under tight prison security and limited means, these individual suppliers could only provide a certain amount of product- their consumer base was too small for them to establish a "brand" or credibility themselves. New consumers would have to buy products of unknown quality and bear the risk of the supplier being an undercover informant, and the possibility that he would not deliver at all.[citation needed]

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