3 gang members involved in death of off-duty LAPD officer sentenced to decades in federal prison Before sentencing the three, the judge said Officer Fernando Arroyos was “a young man who had the potential to enhance the quality of life for all of us” Gangs Who was Chalino Sanchez?
Amid the shooting, prisoners at a downtown Port-au-Prince penitentiary broke out of their cells and gathered in the prison yard in an unsuccessful attempt to escape, the penitentiary's inspector general Pierre Rene Francois told Haitian radio. Shots were also reported on Wednesday in the town ...
These gangs are typically organized across racial or ethnic lines and are said to be more powerful within state correctional facilities than federal prisons. According to the United States Department of Justice, prison gangs play an important role in the transportation and distribution of narcotics ...
Group chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio wassentenced to 22 yearsin federal prison after being found guilty ofseditious conspiracy. Group leaders Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs and Zachary Rehl were also found guilty ofseditious conspiracyand sentenced to 18, 17 and 15 years, respectively.D...
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Thomas Parker, a retired Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, oversaw the federal investigation into the1991 attack on Rodney Kingwhich led to riots in the city. In the ACLU report, he describes violence seen inside LA's jail...
Table of Contents: Introduction; Methodology; State of knowledge of prison gangs prior to the research; Extent of prison gangs in United States; Nature of prison gangs; Prison gang problems; Identifying and tracking prison gang members and activities; Strategies; Case studies; Significant findings; ...
"More than 100 people were convicted today during a massive drug trafficking trial in Brussels," said the Belgian federal police. In all, 119 people were sentenced to prison terms ranging between 14 months and 17 years. The biggest sentence was handed out to an Algerian identi...
In 1996, the Federal Bureau of Prisons found that prison disturbances soared by about 400 percent in the early nineties, which indicated that gangs were becoming more active. Street gangs, as opposed to gangs originating in prisons, are emerging as a larger problem on the East Coast. State ...
Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt a proposed addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol that allows the United States government to resume capital punishment...[more] Indianapolis Star, Thursday, July 25, 2019Gangs in Prison|...