In what increasingly appears to be an all-out fight between white supremacist prison gangs and law enforcement, the feds are taking their incarcerated rivals very seriously. In a remarkable move, following the murders of two local prosecutors in Texas, a federal prosecutor reportedly withdrew Wednesday from a huge case there against the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, or ABT, for “security reasons.”
do you think if inmates were treated differently not like guest in the states home but just a little more humane, would we be reading this now?
Seth Ferranti, who’s serving a 25-year sentence for drug trafficking and writes regularly about prisons and prisoners at Gorilla Convict, spoke to two Texas inmates with firsthand experience with the ABT:
The Aryan Brotherhood was formed in the cauldron of hate that raged at San Quentin prison in California during the volatile 1960s. Since its inception, membership has spread nationally as the group evolved from a racist brotherhood that protected white inmates into a big-time money-making operation, and as splinter groups emerged in states including Texas, Florida, Montana, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
ever wonder why this was not an issue so much except in the movies? but you heard everyday about Black Panthers.
The most notorious of these offshoots is the ABT, established in the early 1980s within the Texas penal system and modeled on the precepts and strict hierarchy of the originators, known in the California state and federal prison systems as "The Brand." The Brand itself was largely undone by a massive 2006 federal racketeering indictment and the ABT took a similar hit last November, when federal prosecutors unveiled a 43-page, 17-count indictment charging 34 members (15 of them already imprisoned) of the violent, whites-only, prison-based gang with everything from racketeering to murder, kidnapping to conspiracy to distributing meth and cocaine.
When that indictment was handed down, the Houston Chronicle reported that the ABT has about 2,600 members in Texas prisons and another 180 in federal prisons, far surpassing their predecessors in size and stature.
"Brutal beatings, fire bombings, drug trafficking and murder are all part of ABT's alleged standard operating procedures," as assistant U.S. attorney said when the charges were announced. "ABT used violence and threats of violence to maintain internal discipline and retaliate against those believed to be cooperating with law enforcement."
if you treat someone or thing in a malicious manner there should be no surprise when retribution befalls the perpetrators. arrogance and false safety of the bars make guards feel a false sense of security, and those that are sadistic prison deities. history is filled with revolts against tyranny and slavery, guess the prison personnel ignored it, now it's repeating itself.
i have to admit while writing this Ayrians were not who i was thinking about.
