Prison Gang* Profiles
Below is a list of prison gang
profiles, including location of operation, formation year,
objectives, structure, organization, and known-leaders. This
list is always being updated, so check back often.
- In 2005, a spokeswoman for the California corrections
department, said there are "over 160,000 inmates in
California prisons. Estimates put the prison gang population
at 803 members, 900 associates, 325 inactive members and
1,050 dropouts" (24 February 2005 The San Francisco
Chronicle).
* the term "prison gang" is used usely here, for convenience. Many officially-called "gangs" actually identify as families, nations, and/or organizations |
|
United States
Aryan
Brotherhood
The Aryan Brotherhood, now a potent force in prisons across
the United States, began in 1967, in California's notorious
San Quentin State Prison.
Black Guerilla Family
Like the Aryan Brotherhood after them, the Black Guerilla
Family formed in San Quentin Penitentiary in 1966.
Bloods
Border
Brothers
Church
of the New Song
Crips
Dixie
Mafia
Jamiyyat
Ul Islam Is Saheeh
KUMI
415
Mexican
Mafia
MS-13
Neta
Association
Nuestra
Familia
Sur
13 (Surenos)
Texas
Syndicate
Trinitarios
|
Canada
Alberta
Warriors
Indian
Posse
Manitoba
Warriors
Native
Syndicate
Redd
Alert
Saskatchewan
Warriors
Brazil
First
Command of the Capital
The militant prisoner-rights gang responsible for the recent
July 2006 wave of violence in Sao Paulo.
|
|
|
bookmark page
NOTE: This discussion board has been temporarily shut down due to an
unreasonably high volume of posts not meeting our terms and conditions. We apologize
to all those contributors who follow the rules. If you would still like to contribute
announcements, news, criticism, suggestions, articles, stories, or artwork,
please email the webmaster or
use the form on our submissions
page. Thank you.
|
