CSP-Sacramento is a high-security state prison in California known for housing dangerous offenders and gang-affiliated inmates. Violent crime and homicides are commonplace within its cells.

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 ...

San Diego County District Attorney officials report that on Tuesday, San Diego County DA Summer Stephan announced dozens of ...

Wall St. is taking a closer look at gangs within the United States. To determine the recognized gangs in each state, 24/7 ...

Defendants Kenneth Johnson, Francis Clement, and Johnson Stinson are already in state prison serving life sentences ...

Criminal charges were announced Tuesday against dozens of defendants who allegedly committed a host of violent crimes ...

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.

a violent gang operating in California prisons,” said U.S. Attorney Scott. “Yesterday, five inmates were transferred to federal custody from California state prisons. All were serving lengthy ...

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with ...

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 ...

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.