system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I believe that prison gang members harm rehabilitation objectives and should be dealt with differently. Please CMV

Main claim to dispute: Due to gangs' somewhat likely negative influence on the desirable rehabilitation process, gang activities should be scrutinized and disrupted. This is perhaps idealistic so let's talk about the merit of the idea rather than challenges (costs, costs, costs) to implementing this. CMV

Let's say for the sake of argument that prison gangs may exist. Where a person enters the prison population and is forced to join a gang because that's how they will avoid being harmed. Sometimes prison gangs may be established based on race and/or ethnic and/or religious backgrounds (also linguistics, places of origin, level of education, etc); let this item cover every possibility as it relates to countries other than United States of America. 

Let's assume that the official objectives of prisons may be for some prisoners (but not all) to rehabilitate and re-enter society with a better attitude and ability to function according to typical expectations (job, a place to live, how about not being in jail). 

Gangs in prison may deny prisoners the opportunity to change their attitudes and instead may lead to exposure to violence and criminal activities (gambling, dealing drugs, assaults on demand) in order to gain status or be accepted by a gang. 

Members of gangs should be given an opportunity to learn how to function in non-prison society, hold down a job and build healthy relationships. Gang members who fail to get with the program should be treated as dangerous and have their sentences reviewed because of their willingness to engage in violent and anti-social behavior that will likely lead to recidivism or just crime.  CMV

What I do not see as relevant to the discussion is the ex post condition: why the person went to jail (three-strikes laws, selling weed, or crimes that statistically involve vulnerable or minority populations that are over-represented in prison). Any gang activity in prison without prejudice or preference should be treated harshly by corrective authorities. 

Edit 1: So what do you think about gangs? do they help or hurt prisoners who want to leave prison? If you decided to complain about the system being broken and slanted, it is a valid critique but not a response to what I am asking.
gpt
What you need to look at is why people form or join gangs in the first place. It often boils down to safety; gangs offer shelter from an otherwise fairly violent prison environment so if you're interested in protecting yourself then a gang starts to look very appealing. 

Someone who may not have otherwise wanted to be part of a gang might join because he fears for his safety. Gangs that are especially powerful can even protect other inmates from guards.

By cracking down you're actually encouraging gang activity. Repression by the guards is seen as a mark of honor by a gang, "Look at us, we're so dangerous they can't let us be together." There's also little evidence that I've seen to support that most of the measures taken now to undercut gang activity has much effect in reducing the gang's numbers. In fact there are whole gangs whose leadership *and* membership is in prison and they spread throughout the prison system.