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Maximum Security

Number 22213
Subject Prisons
Source CBS News 60 Minutes
State None
Year 2005
Publication Date May 15, 2005
Summary This investigation examined the California corrections system's efforts to break up prison gangs in its maximum security facilities. Gang leaders were isolated from the general population but still managed to run prison and street gang operations from the inside. The story also explains the federal government's strategy of dispersing gang leaders to prisons across the country.
Category None
Pages 20
Keywords prisons;prison gangs;corrections;California;Pelican Bay;criminal justice system
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