What do gangs do?

[Hallowenman]

I have three gangs, they apparently have no money and they have no kills. The gangs really dont do anything, so what is the point about gangs?

[Chris]

When you only have a few gang members they don't really do much other than defend each other and sometimes attack other gang members, it's when you have a good number of them and when their leader shows up they become really active.

They'll fight over control of the common rooms, yards, etc. Attack and kill other gang members, defend each other and just generally be really hard to control. They can quite literally screw up your prison.

The first time I received a gang leader he came during a random event with 30 other members of the same gang. The next morning they started a fight and murdered 20 other prisoners and guards. Only way I could control them somewhat was to lock their leader away in permanent solitary (he was an extremely deadly legendary) but because I was punishing their leader the gang would always be really upset and start fires, riot and murder constantly every day. I prayed, just prayed my armed guards would actually kill their leader this time instead of just knocking him unconscious and they did eventually after he killed several people after kicking off in solitary.

The gang alone were committing on average several murders each day fighting over territory, warring with my guards, other gangs and because they were upset about me punishing their leader. The other non-gang prisoners became really unhappy because they felt unsafe around the gangs and so were themselves also rioting, murdering, starting fires and so on… With all the fighting the demand for weapons sky rocketed and my guards became prime targets.

They can be seriously hard to control.

[Hallowenman]

The biggest gang in my prison has 7 members, gang number two has 5 members and the third gang has 4 members. So how many members do they need to have to start being active? And the current situation is that I have marked all gang members as SuperMax and put them in small cells where they are unlikely to meet non-gang members to recruit. Will this work to keep them under control?

[V1KING]

As Touching Hair said, they'll try to take control of Common rooms and Yards, and fight any other gang members that try to go there or take it over instead of them if they can, while if other gangs have leaders they will try to take it instead, occasionally ending in brawls.

Gangs even without leaders will put up the demand for weapons, and pay money to get weapons which will make them even stronger against your guards or other inmates.

If one member gets attacked, others in the area usually help them out aswell, and if one of them kicks off he's more likely to attack rival gangs than just a normal inmate.
This means that if a gang member kicks off in a small area with many inmates, there will usually form gang brawls quite quickly, so keep your gangs seperated, search them regularly, and keep them happy.

[Chris]

With the prison I have right now, the green gang grew to around 20 members when their leader arrived to the prison. He was a normal security prisoner which I didn't think was possible but apparently it is possible for legendary prisoners to be normal security.

It seems to be around 10 - 20 when it's more likely for the gang leaders to show up. Don't quote me on that though.

It's the gang leaders that have the power to recruit others. You don't have to worry about normal members recruiting others. With no leader, gangs grow and shrink as more gang members enter and leave the prison

引用自 Hallowenman：

The biggest gang in my prison has 7 members, gang number two has 5 members and the third gang has 4 members. So how many members do they need to have to start being active? And the current situation is that I have marked all gang members as SuperMax and put them in small cells where they are unlikely to meet non-gang members to recruit. Will this work to keep them under control?

[Hallowenman]

Can gang members/leaders arrive as death row prisoners? I death row prisoner just arrived and is wearing a black uniform with what looks like red text or red symbols on it. What is that?

[Chris]

I forget the details but much like how you can have your name added into the game, it use to be possible to have your face and, whatever you happened to be wearing added to the game.

It was a special option available to people during PA's crowdfunding.

[Hallowenman]

I finally have a gang leader after receiving new prisoners everyday, and all the gangs are growing. One yard of many has been taken over by a gang, and now I can't modify if (place things there, etc). Is there anyway to reclaim the control of the area to the guards/staff?

[Jet City Gambler]

Go to Intelligence > Gangs and there should be an option to "Evict" the gang. It takes a while though, and sometimes they cause trouble.

You can also build a Security Office next to your yards and common rooms, that "projects" the guards' influence over the area, making it harder to take over.

[Cheeki]

引用自 Hallowenman：

I finally have a gang leader after receiving new prisoners everyday, and all the gangs are growing. One yard of many has been taken over by a gang, and now I can't modify if (place things there, etc). Is there anyway to reclaim the control of the area to the guards/staff?

You should be able to do that going into intelligence then gangs, and you will see "Evict" over yards and common rooms, any gang member of that faction in that area will instantly go hostile, and after 24 hours it will return as "neutral"

[Vovin]

Rolling with the Gang stuff. Recently I had red gang in my prison organize a play on a yard without using a lieutenant. Is that common and I've just never noticed it? Red lieutenant is in a seperate Supermax building with two other leaders.
Each gang has about 25 members. Gets real tense in there sometimes.

[Miravlix]

If only the game didn't generate snitch+gang members... My gang leader is a snitch, so I'm forced to have him in protected custody, where he then recruit all the other protected custody prisoners, preventing them getting paroled.

Had to change all max sec. prisoners to normal, change supermax to max sec and create a small supermax block for the PC gang members, because he could even recruit the guys during their parol hearing and I thought it was a good idea to build my PC wing with a seperate parol room.

So to recap:
Gang Leader Recruit.

Gangs take over common rooms/yards. Earning the gang money.

Gang status is a major negative modifier for successful parol hearing.

Gangs go wild if the Gang Leader get punished. (Takes your prison to max heat if he get any punishment)

Gang members is more likely to go nuts.

[lissa_981]

I had an ex prison gaurd:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=660990568

I didn't put him in PC though I just left him in s. max with his gang.. he was fine.
also a trick, set your parole areas behind a staff only air lock and gayrds will escort prisoners too and from thier hearing.. really cuts down on recruitment then

[Vovin]

So my red gang leader became a Federal Witness from an event. The rival green lieutenant and two green members assassinated him in the Supermax yard. Red gang responded by killing green leader in the yard as well. Basically just caused a 40 man riot in the canteen.
Moral of the story: All gang members suck.

Luckily it wasn't terribly messy lol. Only twelve dead, all prisoners.

[lissa_981]

I'm really anpicibating my first gang war in this prison.. Gangs are really getting more prsioners then I know what to do with ( yes they are seperated, I'm just getting that many intaked.. look at the prisoners count)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=738457857
I am getting ready to move my gang wing across the road so that I can double my S. Max cap.