Work Cited

The Politics of AIDS and Prisons

http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/florenz.html

This source mainly gives statistics and overview of what diseases goes on in Prison.

This source gives you an overview over of drug use and spread of viral infections in prison.

It summarizes main topics of the current discussion about prevention of infectious diseases.

It outlines what is need to be done to effectively prevent infectious diseases.

Slang Names for Prison
• http://www.rateitall.com/t-21446-slang-names-for-prison.aspx

This source shows different types of slang names for sections of the prison named by people all over the world. There were at least thirty different names such as:

Hole (solitary confinement)
Mainline Joint
Glasshouse (British Army Slang)
Con College
Hole (solitary confinement)

Behind the Walls

-An expert discusses the role of race-based gangs and other extremists in America's prisons.

• http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=55

This article describes how prison gangs began racially motivated and how the largest prison gang expanded and operates.

Gangs within the community and gangs within prison have a lot in common. Prisoners join gangs in order to feel protected from the general population, so do young adults who join gangs to feel a part of something and protected from the other gang members within the community. Just like within the community, prisoners segregate themselves based on race. The Aryan Brotherhood took it to the next level. The brotherhood is one of the first and most powerful prison gangs. It was formed during the 1960s at San Quentin, originally to protect white inmates from Hispanic and black gangs.

These gangs used intimidation tactics to survive. It is a organized crime within the prison system. The organization is all about drugs, protection, prostitution, extortion, witness intimidation, assaults, and anything else they could use to accomplish a criminal goal. There are members on the inside and outside of jails. They communicated thought letters, girlfriends, visits, anything to get the message across.

Major Prison Gangs

• http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/prison.html

This article describes the major prison gangs that are recognized nationally for their participation in organized crime and violence.

This article describes the top prison gangs that are nationally recognized. It contains statistics about the gangs and what distinguishes them from each other. For the most part the gangs are racially divided, being all White, Hispanic, or Black. The gangs are mostly made up of men and they use tattoos and markings on their body to identify themselves.

The gangs also used handshakes and symbols to identify each other. These gangs become powerful and began running operations on the street such as the Latin Kings. The Latin Kings a prison gang that began in prison and its leader lived in prison and still organized major gang crimes outside of the prison walls.

Gangs Reach Out of Prison to Commit Crimes
by Michael Montgomery

• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4525733

A federal judge in San Francisco is scheduled to sentence five leaders of a California prison gang. The men have already pleaded guilty to drug dealing, extortion and murder across northern California. These men were leaders of prison gangs in California and they used their connections and power to commit crimes outside of prison walls.

During the time these leaders ordered hits and committed crimes, the criminals were already in jail serving life sentences in one of the most secure prisons in the United States/ California has the biggest prison system, yet the prison gangs are the biggest and most powerful. These gang leaders control gangs across the United States along while being in jail. Experts are still trying to figure out how this is possible.