I did enjoy reading your article about how incentives would lessen the Lure of Prison Gangs; I wish I read it sooner. I have Zero experience when it comes to prison life, gangs or anything of that nature. All I know is what I learn in the classroom as a criminal justice major and speaking to police officers. You believe that if the prison offered hope, that those who feel hopeless would then turn away from those who are negative and work to fight for those incentives. I have a few questions for you, 1) what are a few examples of the incentives, which the prison should, proved to keep men away from gangs? 2) Isn’t joining a gang more about protection than it is about having no hope in life? 3) Most prisoners only serve 50% of their prison term, isn’t that incentive enough? 4) And for those who are got life, in a way aren’t those the people who deserve to be in prison for life? That regardless if they get out of prison, same day, they would only go back to their original way of life (hints why they got life)?