Border Brothers: Prison Gang Profile

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Border Brothers are a Mexican nationalist group so-named because they were born "south of the border." Membership in Arizona correctional facilities numbered approximately 150 members in 1999, according to prison officials. According to sources quoted in an MSNBC interview conducted at San Quentin, Border Brothers members are usually those that "get taken advantage of, because they`re not organized at all. They are generally considered "less powerful" than other prison gangs because of their status as illegal immigrants

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  • East Oakland, California, according to user sources.
  • Phoenix, Arizona. Arizona correctional institutions held 150 as of 1999, according to correctional authorities.
  • Pitchess Detention Center, California
  • San Quentin State Prison, California, where

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