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The inner city, high crime neighborhoods of Kingston have been carved into a checkerboard of neighboring gang turfs with colorful nicknames like "Egypt", "Mexico", "Angola", and "Gaza". Many of these so called "garrison" neighborhoods are only one block long but as violent at their core as their tough sounding names might imply. Egypt, seen here December 10, 2008, is a notorious one block stretch of the Rema garrison in Kingston, Jamaica controlled by gangs.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4368x2912 / 3.4MB; Jamaica Jamaican gangs violence murder homicide rates capita crime justice society poverty community garrison gangsters guns weapons youth culture Caribbean tropics West Indies ghetto inner-city inner city epidemic territory criminal slum Kingston Trench Town Egypt neighborhood urban decay horizontal Jamaica Kingston garrison garrisons gangs ghetto poverty violence gangsters crime culture violence tragic crisis island Jamaican armed gang life killing homicide rate political violence PNP JLP neighborhood members guns weapons criminal projects
Contained in galleries: Jamaican Violence Project

The inner city, high crime neighborhoods of Kingston have been carved into a checkerboard of neighboring gang turfs with colorful nicknames like "Egypt", "Mexico", "Angola", and "Gaza". Many of these so called "garrison" neighborhoods are only one block long but as violent at their core as their tough sounding names might imply. Egypt, seen here December 10, 2008, is a notorious one block stretch of the Rema garrison in Kingston, Jamaica controlled by gangs.