Prison Collapse Seeds Transnational Gangs

When a state's prison system disintegrates—cells becoming gang‑run enclaves, arms and logistics circulating inside—organized crime can professionalize in place and then export networks through migration corridors, creating regional crime waves in destination countries. Policymakers who treat migration only as a border or asylum problem miss this upstream security dynamic and therefore underfund regional prison oversight, legal cooperation, and cross‑border criminal‑justice initiatives. — Recognizing prison‑system collapse as a source of exported criminal capacity reframes immigration and security policymaking: responses must combine mobility policy with regional criminal‑justice cooperation and prison reform assistance.