the maximum-security prison in Northern California where all of the state’s alleged prison gang leaders were then being held. Samuel Villalba became a member of the Mexican Mafia in the 1980s.
An incarcerated San Mateo man was one of five alleged gang members federally indicted on racketeering and drug offenses that were carried out by the Mexican Mafia prison gang, the U.S. Department of ...
Three California inmates allegedly tied to the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood prison gang ordered seven Los Angeles-area murders in recent years ... and a secretive federal trial against the men, ...
The Aryan Brotherhood gang formed in 1964 in California’s San Quentin prison, as the state carceral system desegregated and racial conflict broke out between the newly integrated inmates.
It began in California’s San Quentin State Prison in the 1960s, when desegregation mixed prisoners of all races together, and the Aryan Brotherhood, the first gang of its kind, sprang up as a reaction ...