I'm certainly no expert, but I remember watching the first season of *Orange is the New Black*. If I had to guess from what I remember, women are more likely to form alliances based on consensual sexual favors[^1] that look more dispersed or decentralized than gangs. 

[^1]: Or, to give people credit for just being people, the attributes that lead to friendships.

SilkyNinja

The differences between men and women’s facilities are numerous. When the Texas Department of Criminal Justice justifies the use of solitary confinement to “keep gangs from recruiting,” incarcerated women all felt the same way: Women’s prisons don’t have gangs.

From your second link. Anyone know if this is true? Why wouldn't women form gangs when men so readily do? What explains the difference?

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I Fought for Air-Conditioning in Solitary Confinement. Now I Have to Do It Again

> The differences between men and women’s facilities are numerous. When the Texas Department of Criminal Justice justifies the use of solitary confinement to “keep gangs from recruiting,” incarcerated women all felt the same way: Women’s prisons don’t have gangs.

From your second link. Anyone know if this is true? Why wouldn't women form gangs when men so readily do? What explains the difference?