As Deputy Warden of a Maximum Security Prison near Los

question 47

Essay

As deputy warden of a maximum security prison near Los Angeles, you have a high concentration of gang members from different ethnic and racial groups that are literally at war with one another. over the past month, you have had three violent gang-related attacks between rival gangs, and one gang attack on a staff member. The warden has tasked you with attempting tofigure out how best tohouse these rival gangs, alsoknown as security threat groups, tolower the rate of violence within prison walls. You are considering a plan tosegregate inmates by ethnic and racial lines, however, you know that the Supreme Court ruled more than four decades agothat racial segregation is not lawful, unless it is deemed an emergency situation. What will you doand why? Please fully explain.

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