Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Prison Gangs: The Aryan Brotherhood


To survive in prison one has to be ruthless. Especially when one is severely outnumbered in a sea filled with thousands of sharks. The founders of the Aryan Brotherhood understood this when they formed their prison gang somewhere around 1964 in California’s San Quentin State Prison.

Established as a way to protect white convicts from black and Latino inmates, the Aryan Brotherhood quickly made a name for itself as a vicious and violent organization hell-bent on taking its place among the top of the prison food chain.

Known as The Brand and AB, its members are recognizable by a large variety of distinctive tattoos, many referring to white supremacy. Tats usually include the words “Aryan Brotherhood,” “AB,” Nazi symbolism such as SS, sig runes, swastikas, and numbers referring to Heil Hitler, as well as shamrocks and Celtic iconography.

If members of the Aryan Brotherhood come across a non-member displaying any of these tattoos, he must cover them up or suffer the consequences, a turncoat member of the AB once told reporters of National Geographic.

Surrounded by countless black and Hispanic gangs, the Aryan Brotherhood has gone the extra mile to instill fear in its enemies and authorities by committing gruesome acts of violence behind bars, including the murders of several guards.  (more...)


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