Gangs
Throughout the United States, low-level dealing in drugs is being increasingly handled by violent and highly organized criminal gangs. There are three major types of gangs involved in street sales of drugs: prison gangs, traditional street gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs. What do you think we can do? Although gangs are taking over most of our cities we can come back by cleaning up cities, enforcing the law, and bettering gun laws.
Prison gangs are organized generally along racial lines. They were originally formed by prisoners to protect themselves from other inmates. For example, the Mexican Mafia was established in 1957 at the Deuel Vocational Center in Tracy, California, by Hispanic inmates to counter pressure from African-American inmates(Drug trafficking). Today, through an elaborate network of distributors and dealers, it controls part of the drug trade in Southern California. Two prison factions developed in the Illinois penal system: the People Nation and the......

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Title: Gangs
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