The Other Side of Prison Gangs

Here at The Atlantic , Graeme Wood recently wrote at length and with great texture about how gangs maintain order in California's Pelican Bay State Prison. The article, " How Gangs Took Over Prisons ," is engrossing, rich in detail, reflective-and fatally flawed: It's an attempt to write about gangs in a particular prison without explaining how prison policies and practices, not to mention court orders, shape the ways gang members are identified, treated, aided, and disciplined in that prison.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/gangs-and-prisons/381034/