As legend has it the Aryan Brotherhood formed at San Quentin Prison in California in 1967 in the cauldron of the prison race wars to fight the Black Guerrilla Family, a black prison gang led by the notorious Black Panther, revolutionary and author of Soledad Brother, George Jackson. The white supremacist group, which later became known as the Brand ... [Continue Reading]
The Mexican Mafia
La Eme is one of the big four California prison gangs. They originated in the California prison system in the 1960s and have grown since then to rule a vast empire of criminal activities, stretching from Southern California to Arizona to Colorado. Virtually all the southwestern gangs of Mexican heritage (Surenos) are under their control. In prison ... [Continue Reading]
Today’s Aryan Brotherhood by Robert Rosso
During the 1960's a group of White convicts serving time inside California's notorious San Quentin State Prison decided that they had had enough. Tired of watching their race fall prey to two deadly prison gangs, the Black Gorilla Family (BGF) and the Mexican Mafia (Eme), they came together and formed a little gang of their own. They called ... [Continue Reading]
Nazi Low Riders
Gang warfare has raged unabated in California’s prisons for almost 40 years. Legend has it starting when an argument at Soledad State Prison began the rift among Latinos that today is manifested in the Norteno/Sureno beef that pits Chicano solely based on the region of the state they come from. Not to be outdone parallel structures among blacks and ... [Continue Reading]
Aryan Circle
In prison battle lines are drawn along racial, territorial and geographical distinctions. And in this country, the US of A, it’s been reported that about one fourth of all male prisoners are gang members. And on some compounds a convict has no choice, but to join a gang. Either that or he gets extorted, checked in, beat down or turned out. That’s ... [Continue Reading]
Prison Gangs and the Analogy of Hate
Prison is a cauldron of hate. A mixing pot of volatile tempers and personalities that can incite violence in a nanosecond. The territorial, drug and monetary beefs from the streets bleed over into the prison yards as racism intensifies and the hate it spews forth explodes in the form of prison gang warfare. In prison a convict’s skin color defines ... [Continue Reading]
Warden M.R. by Robert Rosso
December 6, 2000. I was standing in the lieutenant's office inside of USP Leavenworth, hands cuffed behind my back. From the waist down my pants were splattered with the victim's blood, his skin embedded on the tips of my steel-toe boot's. Dusty and I had just gotten through assaulting RM in the chow hall, and the staff members surrounding me ... [Continue Reading]
