Gang and Terror Recruitment
Gang and terror recruitment within correctional facilities poses significant security risks and challenges for staff. This directory offers articles and resources on identifying, preventing, and managing recruitment efforts by gangs and terrorist organizations among inmates. Understanding these threats is essential for maintaining security and preventing the spread of extremist ideologies. For related strategies, explore our section on Inmate Management and Security.
The Supermax – designed to be confining in every way – houses the nation’s most dangerous and notorious criminals
James “Whitey” Bulger was killed just hours after he was transferred from a Florida lockup to USP Hazelton in West Virginia and placed in the general population
These tattoos became intricate works of art that detailed not only an inmate’s crimes, but a good portion of their lives
Investigators stopped a domestic terrorism plot by a militia group that planned to detonate bombs at an apartment complex where Somali refugees live
Gangs codes use numbers, letters and superscripts - here’s how to reveal their message
The DOD spent nearly $26K surveying potential sites last year for housing terror suspects now held in Guantanamo Bay
The bill would bar the federal government from spending money on any Guantanamo prisoner transfers, even those to a foreign country
Thomas Guolee, a member of the 211 Crew white supremacist prison gang, was sentenced to 28 years for trying to kill an officer during a break-in
Abu Zubaydah, who has not been seen publicly since his capture in 2002, appeared at a hearing called to determine whether he should remain in detention at Guantanamo Bay
Texas is exploring new ways to help inmates escape gangs
The transfer is the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration
California’s database of suspected gang members that is shared by police agencies around the state may violate privacy rights
After a lengthy tug-of-war, the Pentagon has given a senator the first-ever, unclassified report detailing the suspected militant backgrounds of over 100 detainees
Sources say the inmate is a gang member
Officials say the officer may have been targeted by the Bloods gang
Former al-Qaida militant published “Guantanamo Diary” about life at the detention center
Bloody June included the killing of an inmate in one prison and a brawl at another facility that sent 16 inmates to hospitals
The governor has said little publicly about the 2013 assassination of a prisons director by a mistakenly paroled member of a prison gang, even as questions linger
Blocked parole Thursday for a former leader of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who now helps law enforcement
Inmate allegedly said he wanted to “become a mujahedeen”
The battered correctional officer was taken to a hospital and treated for a “significant facial injury”
Authorities believe the killing was ordered by members of a white supremacist prison gang
Are you a master at identifying the meaning behind prison ink? Test yourself!
An unsealed indictment revealed details of the foiled murder plot Thursday
States are permitted to opt out of a federal lifetime ban on food stamps for drug offenders
Colo. ex-convict’s attempt to break in at a former CO’s home related to prison gang, prosecutors say
Ex-convict with alleged ties to white supremacist prison gang charged with attempted burglary and murder
Even when the code is a “edoC drawkcaB” it’s not “elbissopmi ot rehpiced”
COs found cellphones and makeshift weapons after a riot that injured a warden and CO
One inmate brushed up against another and ‘the fight was on’
Groups like Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union argue that moving the terror suspects to U.S. soil doesn’t end the policy of indefinite detention
The Senate’s 91-3 vote gave final legislative approval to the measure
The sheriffs argued in the letter sent Monday that Colorado would be in danger if the Pentagon sends Guantanamo detainees to either of two prisons under consideration in the central part of the state