What are some characteristics of security threat group (STG) found within the nation’s prisons?

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What will be an ideal response?

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Prison and street affiliation is based on race, ethnicity, geography, ideology, or any combination of these or other similar factors. Members seek protection from other gang members inside and outside the prison, as well as insulation from law enforcement detection (use of safe houses when wanted). Members will mutually take care of an incarcerated member’s family, at least minimally, while the member is locked up, since this is an expected overhead cost in the organization. The group’s mission integrates an economic objective and uses some form of illicit industry, such as drug trafficking, to fulfill the economic necessities to carry forward other stated objectives. The use of violence or the threat of violence is a common tool in meeting these economic objectives. All security threat groups are a major issue for prisons around the United States.