many of these inmates are serving shorter sentences for nonviolent crimes and parole violations. corcoran s gang population has grown so large that even a level one yard isn t free of politics. we received the information off an inmate on our northern image on here, how to behave and not cooperate with staff. in conjunction with my staff. we talked about the northern infraction on the yard. i ve asked them to start searching these guys, and find out what s going on. it s really indicative of these inmates that they write this small so it s hard for you to read. you have to look in the smallest places to find these things. sometimes they re just in the most commonplaces. this one i can t get out. usually it s the code of conduct or hits they want taken care of on the yard. or background checks on other northerner s that hit the facility.
gangs. i just grew up, like, angry. you know, so it wasn t cool showing your emotions and crying. i channeled all that hurt into anger. i started gang-banging. you know? and i said, if i m going to cry, then i m going to let their blood be my tears, you know? what did you do to gain notoriety? point of word, blasting fools, you know? did you kill anybody? i mean, you know, i ve been i ve been it s been alleged, you know. through his years of coming in and out of custody, he has elevated his status within both the inmate population and the gang population to be considered a very violent inmate. all the things that i ve been through, it s like i ve been walking through hell wearing gasoline shoes.
it all and bring it over here for these guys. many of these inmates are serving shorter sentences for nonviolent crimes and parole violations. corcoran s gang population has grown so large that even a level one yard isn t free of politics. we received the information off an inmate on our northern image on here, how to behave and not cooperate with staff. in conjunction with my staff. we talked about the northern infraction on the yard. i ve asked them to start searching these guys, and find out what s going on. it s really indicative of these inmates that they write this small so it s hard for you to read. you have to look in the smallest places to find these things. sometimes they re just in the most commonplaces. this one i can t get out. usually it s the code of conduct or hits they want taken care of
overhauled the gang strategy and looking at social media and real time intelligence to anticipate where the crimes are happening. and there is a 16-member task force of federal prosecutors now. what else can be done, michael? the superintendent has been working with the mayor on social service programs. that is fairly unique to chicago to have the police department working as closely as they are trying to get these young people off the streets and into activities before they would join gains. in your experience, any success stories or examples of things that have worked? i think a lot of the community-based programs can work. i think in some of these neighborhoods where there is a large gang population providing
here i want to roll over and grab hold of a shank every morning. i have to think about that. a lot of the prisoners here that have done time in other places do not want to make this prison like those prisons. we don t even have a gang population. you have a few guys that may try and start something but usually they re segregated out of population rather fast and transferred out away from the kids they re trying to organize in the first place. don cowboy stump is serving a 99-year term for murder. he was first incarcerated at spring creek on the day it opened. won t be long before they set up the picnic tables. there will be picnic tables out here, along the walkways on the tracks. he believes that the natural setting has a lot to do with the lack of violence in the prison.