Aryan Brotherhood Research Paper
Security Threat: Gangs Inside Prison Walls
By: Katelynn Gregory
CJ130; Unit 9 Final Project
03/07/2015
The Aryan Brotherhood, also know widely as The Brand, Alice Baker, AB, or One-Two, is the Nation’s oldest major white supremacist gang and national crime syndicate. The Aryan Brotherhood gang was founded in 1964 by Irish bikers as a form of protection for white inmates in newly desegregated prisons. The founding location of this gang was at the San Quentin State Prison in California. The idea of the AB was initially to have a safety line so to speak when prisons were desegregated. They band together to make sure no one from another raced messed with them. Today, things have changed. They are now operating in and out of …show more content…
The Aryan Brotherhood has often worked with Latino and other gangs to make a profit, putting their racial tendencies aside. The AB participates in drug trafficking, male prostitution rings, gambling, and extortion inside prison walls. On the streets, the AB is involved in practically every kind of criminal enterprise, including murder-for-hire, armed robbery, gun running, methamphetamine manufacturing, heroin sales, counterfeiting and identity theft. California is still the main stomping grounds for the Aryan Brotherhood and is still growing on a daily basis. They have many allies inside of the prison which makes their criminal activities easier to handle and their growth more profitable. They are allies, inside and out, with gangs such as the Mexican Mafia, Hell’s Angels, the Gambino and Philadelphia Crime family and also the Irish Mob. They also have several rivals including Aryan Circle, Black Guerrilla Family, Folk Nation, MS-13, Bloods and the Crips. During the early 1970s, cult leader Charles Manson sought the AB’s protection. He was refused membership because he declined to kill other …show more content…
But the AB still used his coterie of female fans to smuggle drugs and weapons into San Quentin. The AB is a notoriously deadly organization. Some years ago, authorities calculated that while the group’s members made up less than one tenth of 1% of the U.S. prison inmate population, they were responsible for 18% of all prison murders. In recent years, authorities have been repeatedly frustrated by the way that imprisoned AB leaders have been able to organize and direct major criminal enterprises even from solitary confinement, where most are held. In 2002, they moved to indict 29 leaders of the federal AB organization, all of them held in various prisons around the country, for violations of federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Twenty-one of the leaders were charged with death penalty offenses, even though many were already serving life terms, because prosecutors felt that was the only way they could stop their criminal activities. Among those charged with capital offenses were AB commissioners Mills and Bingham. But the tactic failed
By: Katelynn Gregory
CJ130; Unit 9 Final Project
03/07/2015
The Aryan Brotherhood, also know widely as The Brand, Alice Baker, AB, or One-Two, is the Nation’s oldest major white supremacist gang and national crime syndicate. The Aryan Brotherhood gang was founded in 1964 by Irish bikers as a form of protection for white inmates in newly desegregated prisons. The founding location of this gang was at the San Quentin State Prison in California. The idea of the AB was initially to have a safety line so to speak when prisons were desegregated. They band together to make sure no one from another raced messed with them. Today, things have changed. They are now operating in and out of …show more content…
The Aryan Brotherhood has often worked with Latino and other gangs to make a profit, putting their racial tendencies aside. The AB participates in drug trafficking, male prostitution rings, gambling, and extortion inside prison walls. On the streets, the AB is involved in practically every kind of criminal enterprise, including murder-for-hire, armed robbery, gun running, methamphetamine manufacturing, heroin sales, counterfeiting and identity theft. California is still the main stomping grounds for the Aryan Brotherhood and is still growing on a daily basis. They have many allies inside of the prison which makes their criminal activities easier to handle and their growth more profitable. They are allies, inside and out, with gangs such as the Mexican Mafia, Hell’s Angels, the Gambino and Philadelphia Crime family and also the Irish Mob. They also have several rivals including Aryan Circle, Black Guerrilla Family, Folk Nation, MS-13, Bloods and the Crips. During the early 1970s, cult leader Charles Manson sought the AB’s protection. He was refused membership because he declined to kill other …show more content…
But the AB still used his coterie of female fans to smuggle drugs and weapons into San Quentin. The AB is a notoriously deadly organization. Some years ago, authorities calculated that while the group’s members made up less than one tenth of 1% of the U.S. prison inmate population, they were responsible for 18% of all prison murders. In recent years, authorities have been repeatedly frustrated by the way that imprisoned AB leaders have been able to organize and direct major criminal enterprises even from solitary confinement, where most are held. In 2002, they moved to indict 29 leaders of the federal AB organization, all of them held in various prisons around the country, for violations of federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Twenty-one of the leaders were charged with death penalty offenses, even though many were already serving life terms, because prosecutors felt that was the only way they could stop their criminal activities. Among those charged with capital offenses were AB commissioners Mills and Bingham. But the tactic failed