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Brazil fact of the day
In Brazil, they segregate their prisons according to gang membership. No exceptions. Not even for individuals who in fact are not members of any gang.
How does that work? Easy. Upon being admitted to the prison system, unaffiliated prisoners are required to join a gang.
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Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 10, 2008 at 08:27 AM in Law | Permalink
Comments
"Requirements in some places to identify with one gang faction facilitates the growth of gang-identification, and gang related activity."
Posted by: Levi at Sep 10, 2008 9:39:44 AM
Wow, might be effective, but kind of scares me.
Posted by: Speedmaster at Sep 10, 2008 10:02:21 AM
This also happens in Guatemala.
I would be tend to believe it is common to all Latinamerican countries -at least central american countries- where persists a youngsters affilliation to gangs and a lot of deportations from the United States.
Posted by: Lisardo bolaños at Sep 10, 2008 10:14:20 AM
Kind of like the union shop we have here in the States.
Posted by: Blackadder at Sep 10, 2008 10:32:51 AM
I may be wrong, but I suspect the actual practice is asking new inmates who are not members of gangs to choose with which gang they want to be locked up. This may be reasonable, since gangs tend to "own" neighborhoods, and it may not be good policy to be with members of gangs from different neighbourhoods.
I am just guessing, though.
Posted by: NPTO at Sep 10, 2008 10:41:18 AM
Actually, the term "gang" is somewhat misleading. In some Brazilian states, the whole penitentiary system is run by highly organized crime syndicates, and not playing by their rules is just not an option. It is not a "Crips" and "Bloods" thing, but something that goes much deeper.
Posted by: Diogo at Sep 10, 2008 11:15:57 AM
What I want to know is if they've witnessed any evidence of sub-gang differentiation within the larger gangs.
Posted by: Matt at Sep 10, 2008 4:33:22 PM
How are unaffiliated prisoners assigned? Sorting hat?
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