Arroyo Grande is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. The population was 17,252 at the 2010 census. Arroyo Grande is a small coastal town with historic, suburban, and rural elements located at 35Â°7â²15â³N 120Â°35â²12â³W / 35.12083Â°N 120.58667Â°W / 35.12083; -120.58667 (35.120878, -120.586799).
In many cases, national street gangs originated in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and New York, and they later migrated to other American cities such as Atlanta, Cleveland, St. Louis, Dallas, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Orlando, Houston, and Detroit.he earliest American street gangs emerged at the end of the American Revolutionary War in the early 1780s. However, these early street gangs had questionable legitimacy, and more serious gangs did not form until the early 1800s.
A chain gang is a group of convicted criminals on a labor detail, usually outside of their place of incarceration. Chain gangs were mainly used in the American South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To prevent individual prisoners from escaping, the entire group was chained together by manacles around their ankles, wrists or necks. Chain gangs in America were mostly eliminated by the 1950s. Several sources link chain gangs with slavery practices of the South before the Civil War. Inmate labor has been in use throughout history. The chain gang, however, is most often associated with the American South.