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Inmate And Prison Gang Leadership., Sandra H. Fortune

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Almost 2,000 males, who have been convicted of crimes covering the gamut of criminal activities, are institutionalized in the state prison in Johnson County, Tennessee. These inmates, housed in the confines of a few concrete buildings, represent a society that is dissimilar from the free-world society.

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to determine the characteristics of an inmate leader. Research data were collected through interviews with 20 prisoners located in the Northeast Correctional Complex in Mountain City, Tennessee. Inmate leaders, selected for the study, included gang leaders and non-gang leaders. Interviews were tape recorded and transcribed for the …

News Cass: Newsletter Of The Center For Appalachian Studies And Services (Winter/Summer, 2003), East Tennessee State University. Center For Appalachian Studies And Services.

News CASS: Newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services

News CASS (winter/summer, 2003), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University.