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We spoke to hundreds of prison gang members – here's what they said about life behind bars

  • Written by David Pyrooz, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
We spoke to hundreds of prison gang members – here's what they said about life behind barsA ministry program student at a Texas prison. Some inmates cite religion to avoid gang recruitment.Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images

The United States incarcerates a larger proportion of its citizens than any other developed country in the world, with around 1.5 million people serving time in prison. But to anyone who...

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