'Vying for control': How MS-13 uses violence and extortion in America's jails

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

‘Vying for control’: How MS-13 uses violence and extortion in America’s jails

By Michael E. Miller February 4 at 6:48 PM

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The attack on May 5, 2017, came at a moment when MS-13’s ranks in the jail were at an all-time high — the result of a nationwide crackdown on the violent street gang. Of the jail’s 900 or so inmates at the time, officials said, about 50 were tied to MS-13.

“Our incidents every month are predominantly MS,” said a Prince George’s jail investigator, speaking on the condition of anonymity for his safety. “They are vying for control of these housing units.”

As bodies bearing MS-13’s trademark stab wounds and machete slashes have appeared in quiet suburbs and secluded parks across the country, authorities have increasingly gone after the gang. From New York to Virginia to Texas, they have arrested hundreds of members of MS-13 over the past two years.

But that effort is now posing its own problems.

As jails fill with MS-13 members, facilities are feeling the strain. Fights are up. So is extortion. And jailers are struggling to keep MS-13 members away from one another and their rivals.

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[Jake Stern]

1. This is one group I think should be deported with quickness

If an immigrant is a member of a gang, be it MS-13 or Bloods/Crips, etc., should be sent packing.