Unlike prisons in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington, which experienced widespread gang infiltration by the early 1970s, Texas prisons were largely insulated from gangs until the 1980s (Beaird1986; Crouch and Marquart1989; Fong and Vogel1995). Growth of gang membership and violence w...
prisons. Huntsville, Texas is home to seven prisons, while Beaumont and Gatesville, Texas house six facilities each. Through 1969, there were only 523 prisons constructed across the United States (see Table 2). Table 2. Descriptive statistics of all variables included in the analysis from 1970...
prisons. Huntsville, Texas is home to seven prisons, while Beaumont and Gatesville, Texas house six facilities each. Through 1969, there were only 523 prisons constructed across the United States (see Table 2). Figure 2 demonstrates the unevenness of the prison boom over time. This period ...