Overcoming Obstacles

Often joining a gang is a last resort. These people can struggle at home, or they may not even have a home and a gang is the last option. Most people may not see gang members as needing to overcome obstacles. The obstacle they need to overcome is either finding a way to survive or finding a way out. According to the article, "CORRECTIONS TODAY" by Chad R. Trulson, less then five precent of the jail population are gang members. This means either the amount has gone down, or they are not catching them. This shows a different obstacle to overcome, how will the law deal with this five precent. The laws response to this to throw them all together in jail, this will not overcome the obstacle. "I'm convinced that if you put three people on an island somewhere, two would clique up and become predatory against the other at some point." This was said by Cory Godwin. He was former president of the Gang Investigators Association for the Florida Department of Corrections.
I agree the answer to overcoming gangs is not to throw them in jail. Most of them joined becuase they had no other chioces. I believe a way to overcome the gang violence is to help out the lower class with financial aid in these times of the recession.

Trulson, Chad. "Corrections Today." SIRS (2006). Retrieved on March 17, 2009 from:
http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-clean-copy?id=SMN0307-0-7340&type=ART&artno=0000248761