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 indictment alleges an extensive criminal enterprise in which gang members, including inmates within the Georgia DOC, orchestrated numerous crimes, including murders, attempted arson and drug trafficking inside and outside of GDOC facilities
The contemporary digital landscape is generating vast reservoirs of data that agencies must connect and analyze
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office asked for the ex-deputy’s bail to be increased, citing his potential flight risk due to possible ties with a Mexican drug cartel
The USO Family member already was in prison when he was indicted last year
With the popularity of “texting” in our society, we see that texting abbreviations are being added to gang documents and written in code
A military found Ahmed al-Darbi of Saudi Arabia guilty to the five charges against him
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CDCR has been working on a “step-down” program that would allow inmates to be released from their solitary placement
In State of Union Address, President Obama promised that 2014 would be the end of Gitmo
Training video that examines the threat of white supremacist prison gangs
Official: “It was just a way of life inside the facility”
Orlando Sentinel’s Henry Curtis talks about officials warning of an inmate release scheme
Sheriff Mike McCoy said gang members enter jail with loyalties and rivalries that they had on the streets, and because of that, his officers have to be careful
Bribed personnel, distributed drugs and assaulted other inmates
Inmate filed suit, claiming they ignored his abuse at the hands of the Aryan Brotherhood
Inmates watch every move we make; they see our strengths, but they also see our weaknesses
BGF recruits were specifically told to target female corrections officers with “low self-esteem, insecurities, and certain physical attributes”
Connections to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
Prosecutors said the case is important partly because of its size — 25 people were charged in a 57-count indictment — and because the racketeering charge is a tool rarely used against gangs
San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne said gangs are growing as a result of the state’s prison realignment
Claimed to be a member of a gang, and members of that gang who were still on the street were watching the Obamas
Danny Roman, now serving a life sentence without parole, allegedly controls Harpys and more than a dozen Latino gangs across south Los Angeles
In the lawsuit, eight inmates say guards at the south Boise facility let gangs run the prison
One of this year’s topics included an update to the state’s prison realignment plan, drop-out gangs and prison gangs
Lawsuit paints the prison as a place where correctional officers work in fear of angering inmate gang members
“Security Threat Group Identification, Prevention and Management” is now the department’s official policy
Several members of the Pinellas Police Standards Council agreed Wednesday that local law enforcement agencies need to change how they collect and use gang intelligence
The “Tic-Tac-Toe” code system is flexible, secure, easy to learn and easy to use
Rather than target established street gangs involved in the drug trade, the reinforcements will focus mainly on “looser associations of younger men who identify themselves by the block they live on, or on which side of a housing development they reside”
Admitted he was a gang member at the time of the 1993 shooting that killed one man and injured another, but he maintained he was not involved in the shooting and was not present in the area when it happened
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