Texas Latino Prison Gangs

Tapia, Mike; Sparks, Corey S.; Miller, J. Mitchell

doi:10.1177/0032885514524694

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“…Since the 1990s, racial segregation has continued in an ad hoc capacity, though gang affiliation as the grouping mechanism by which racial segregation is mandated by "disruptive groups" has never been as pronounced in Texas prisons. Adding to this ad hoc grouping, as Tapia et al (2014) point out, is the fact that in Texas it is geography that forms the lines along which prisoners are divided given how Hispanic prisoners subgroup by city and regional affinities (see also Bloch, 2022;Lopez-Aguado, 2016;Mitchell et al, 2017). Like in Arizona and California, it is largely gang alliances, formed both on the outside and inside of prison territory, that present as racial in-grouping at various scales.…”

Section: Organized (Dis)integration and Prison Politicsmentioning

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Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona

Bloch

Olivares‐Pelayo

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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Prisoners in the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) coordinate to circumvent full racial housing integration, revealing how “race” and adherence to the “racial code” is used as an organizing concept in carceral settings that is distinct from conceptualizations of race and politics of identity within free society. In addition to providing a review of the literature on the complexity of prison racialization, we base our discussion of racialization and adherence to the racial code on our combined experience as formerly racialized and gang-affiliated inmates, as well as on insights from informal and semi-structured interviews with prisoners who have navigated attempts at racial integration as part of the ADCRR's recently adopted Integrated Housing Program.

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Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona

Bloch

Olivares‐Pelayo

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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“…This “top down” race-making process, however, may result in greater interracial conflict due to how race is performed among incarcerated individuals from the “bottom up” (Bloch & Olivares-Pelayo, 2021). By giving race meaning in this context, the institution creates a stratified prison society in which groups are formed along racial lines and intergroup hostility is amplified (Tapia et al, 2014).…”

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Racial Politics in the Contemporary Prison Society: The Importance of Race and Ethnicity to Prison Social Organization

Infante

Morse

Fahmy

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Prior research documents race and ethnicity as central to how individuals navigate the social and physical space of prisons. Racial segregation persists as a feature of prison life, and in navigating this racialized structure, racial groups construct and enforce a set of racialized norms to govern behavior (i.e., the “racial code”) that reinforce and reify prison racial politics. These processes, however, have remained largely descriptive in nature. Using data from a sample of incarcerated men in Arizona prisons ( N = 251), this article extends prior work by operationalizing the concept of the racial code, assessing its dimensionality, distinguishing it from the prison code, and differentiating how features of prison social organization influence racial code adherence and mobilization. Results suggest that the racial code is distinct from the prison code and that racial differences exist in the extent of adhering to versus mobilizing the racial code, net of gang status.

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The changing social organization of prison protection markets: when prisoners choose to organize horizontally rather than vertically

Gundur

2018

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This article revisits the framework which Buentello et al. (Prison J 71(2): 3-14, 1991) created to describe the development of inmate solidarity groups into prison gangs in the Texas Department of Corrections. Interviews with current and former prison gang members in Texas, Arizona, and Illinois augment the current published literature on prison gangs in California. This article argues that the responses which prison administrations make to prisoners' social orders are not static and have, in some cases, caused vertically configured groups to evolve into horizontally configured groups. These structural changes in prison gangs affect the gangs' ability to affect control in the criminal underworld outside prison. Accordingly, although the challenges which prison administrations present to vertically developed social orders within prison may improve the administrations' control within the prison walls, they may effectively decrease criminal-led social control on the street, leading to an increase in street-level violence.

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Texas Latino Prison Gangs

Cited by 23 publications

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Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona

Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona

Racial Politics in the Contemporary Prison Society: The Importance of Race and Ethnicity to Prison Social Organization

The changing social organization of prison protection markets: when prisoners choose to organize horizontally rather than vertically

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