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Respond to the following discussions (6X). Write how you would respond to their discussions. (No word count.) Be thoughtful and insightful and it must demonstrate critical thinking and analysis.
How would you Respond to the following students
1. The Departments of Correction use the term security threat groups (STG) to take the recognition away from any specific group that declares itself a gang. The term STG appears to be a more tactile way of defining a gang. Gang members possess common characteristics, interests and goals distinguishing them from other inmate groups or other inmates. The gangs also pose a threat to the safety of the prison staff, other inmates, and the community. Personally I don’t think it really makes a difference whether you call them a prison gang or STG they really mean the same thing.
2. The Department of corrections refer to prison gangs as securtiy threat groups and not gangs because it takes away the recognition of the word gang. But I honestly feel like it doesnt makes a difference because these prisoners come in as an individual in a gang or a group of them in gangs. They already have the mind set of them being in a gang so in prison its a gang. It's just an appropiate way of officers of saying it to not hype them up or to respect them.
3. Which label provides more recognition In Your view, gang or STG (Security Threat Group)?
4. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) is a white supremacist gang and organized crime group that operates both in and outside of prison across the US. It was founded in 1964 by Irish bikers at San Quentin State Prison as a response to the racial desegregation of American prisons. Also known as AB, The Brand or Alice Baker, it is thought that the Aryan Brotherhood has around 20,000 exclusively white male members, some behind bars and some on the outside. While initially closely associated with Nazism ideologically, many adherents belong to the group for the identity and purpose it provides (SPLC). They are considered one of the most violent prison gangs because they are able to kill even when locked up in a prison. Their violence can also come out of nowhere for no apparent reason. In 1983 the Marion, Ohio, federal penitentiary was believed to be the most secure federal prison in the country. After the incident, federal prisons across the country began to move known AB members to “supermax” units or prisons around the country. According to the FBI, the group’s members made up less than one tenth of 1% of the U.S. prison inmate population, they were responsible for 18% of all prison murders (Stoffers, 2015).
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“The Aryan Brotherhood is mostly a prison gang, so they aren't a strikingly horrific danger. However, they kill people, kill people and kill people in jails at an alarming rate. They kill people outside of jails as well, but not nearly as much. The Aryan Brotherhood was founded in 1964 in San Quentin prison near San Francisco. Since 1964 they've earned the distinguishable title of the “most violent extremist group in the US,” by the Anti-Defamation League” (Blackburn, 2014).
Its estimated number is between 15,000 to 20,000 members. It covers an extremely small fraction of the whole prison percentage, but it is considered responsible for about 20% of prison murders. It was formed by whites in prison to fight against the blacks (Morales, 2013). This discussion focuses on why the Aryan Brotherhood, even though the smallest of all the prison gangs, is considered the most violent and the factors and the circumstances that have led to the situation.
I believe one of the factors that contribute to the ability of the prison gang to be as strong as it is even though it is small is the support they have both inside and outside the prison. In this, women play an important role in making this happen. It is clear that women outside the prison offer support to the prison gang resulting in strengthening it. This makes it easy for the prison gang to execute its mission. Three females that came to mind where April Flanagan (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Chasity Clark (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Tanya Smith (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. These women were fascinated by the culture; one of them had a drug issue. There is a strange hold over the women prison gang members have from the Aryan Brotherhood.
The other factor is that the prison gang members have a lot of influence and control over the street gangs, which are outside the boundaries of the prison (Skarbek, 2014). The street gangs can also assist the prison gang by offering support in the gang’s economic activities which are typical to the entities of the organized crimes. Through the street gangs, it is easy for the prison gang to engage in drug trafficking and trade in contraband among other activities. The money received assists the gangs in meeting their financial needs hence strengthening it.
To sum it up all, it is clear that the Aryan Brotherhood is an example of a very violent prison gang. The prison gang is strong and violent due to the support that it receives from women outside the prison and the ability to maintain control and influence over the street gangs outside prison. The street gangs and women help them in the execution of their typical economic activities such as trading contraband and drug trafficking. This enables the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang to gain financial freedom necessary in the execution of its activities.
5. What is the hold of so many an inmate over so many a woman?
6. The Aryan Brotherhood (AB) are relatively small compared to other gangs. In the federal prison system, the FBI alleges its members make up less than one-tenth of 1% of inmates but are responsible for 18% of all prison murders. The AB also as an alliance with La Eme, an Mexican gang. La Eme predominately assists AB with smuggling narcotics inside the prison system. The AB has a strict code “blood in, blood out” which means a commitment to the AB is a lifetime commitment. The AB appears to be very well organized within the prison system and I believe that is why they are a formidable group of individuals.