gang rule
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The pope, who repeatedly denounced violence during his trip, also took a swipe at the region's jails and prisons, which are often over-crowded and subject to corruption and gang rule.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2018
Field marshal of the Government's forces seeking to break up gang rule by the left-handed method of jailing gangsters for tax evasion, his success would be measured by his ability to dispose of Capone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, a third of the convicts remain housed in army-style dormitories, an arrangement that many penologists say breeds conflict and gang rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chicago's newspapers yammered indignantly, of course, at the "insulting and revolting" proposal, this "outrageous evidence of arrogant municipal gang rule."
From Time Magazine Archive
It indulged in admirable essays against corruption, gang rule and bossism.
From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham
