Some states don’t have prison gangs at all. New York has had street gangs for well over a century, but its first major prison gang didn’t form until the mid-1980s.

Prison gangs were described as “watered down,” no longer having the teeth to enforce rules, especially the security threat groups. Few prisoners, including gang members, believed that gangs brought ...

Street gangs in New Jersey have a foothold in almost half of the state’s municipalities and reach across all 21 counties, according to a State Police report released yesterday. But the reality ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced a new policy Wednesday banning gangs among deputies in the department, an issue county officials have said has spanned decades.

Criminal gangs from central and south America are taking advantage of lax US immigration laws to set up in cities across the nation and steal from hardworking citizens, a sheriff has warned ...

But Haiti’s gangs maintain they deserve a seat at the negotiating table. If they do not get it, Viv Ansanm will exercise its say by other means, Innocent warns.

Haiti’s gangs treat human life as a commodity, kidnapping and killing thousands to seize control of an estimated 80% of capital city Port-au-Prince.

A blistering new official investigation decries violent, lawless “deputy gangs” that continue to wield extraordinary power within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. The report delivers a ...

Based on evidence from federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement, the FBI says gangs commit 48% of violent crime, and are only becoming more dangerous. Some even source weapons from the ...

These gangs first formed in the U.S. in the 1980s by Salvadorans fleeing civil war. Then in the 1990s thousands of gang members were deported from the U.S. back to El Salvador and the gangs ...

Sunday's shooting came after gangs met to discuss their differences, cops said. — -- Nine suspected gang members died and 170 were arrested after a meeting between rival Texas biker groups ...

The motorcycle gangs involved in Sunday's shootout in a Waco, Texas, restaurant parking lot are a breed apart from weekend hobbyists on bikes, authorities say. The groups are serious criminal ...