Part 1 presents specific management strategies organized around issues that bear most directly on controlling gang violence. These include agency policy, system initiatives of the director, development and use of gang intelligence, program considerations, housing arrangements, staff training, discipline, policing contraband, inmate management, responses to critical gang situations, and gang-related lawsuits. Three case study synopses illustrate prison gang experiences and management tactics. Part 2 presents an indepth case study of violent inmate organizations at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. Included is an assessment of management strategies used to retake the prison from violent inmate groups and tactics employed to stabilize the prison after it was retaken. Additional research data are appended. 74 references.
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