Aryan Brotherhood is a white supremacist prison gang and organized crime group located in United States. The Aryan Brotherhood is also known as ''The Brand'', ''The AB
(Alice Baker)'' and ''The One-Two''. It was formed in 1967 in San Quentin State Prison,
California Department of Corrections, growing out of the Blue Bird Gang of the 1950s.
Until the 1960s most prisons in the United States were racially segregated1. In 1960s prisons slowly began to desegragate, many inmates organized themselves in racial groups. It is beleived that the Aryan Brotherhood's presence started to grow most quickly in the California prisons. It was considered a necessity at that time for the Aryan
Brotherhood to rise their power in prisons. In 1960s a big number of new ethnicities
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They wanted to bring death sentences for at least 21 of them and make them less powerful.
The case produced 30 death sentences but no one of most powerful leaders received death sentence. In 2006. two most powerful leaders, Barry ‘’The Baron’’ Mills and T.D.
‘’The Hulk’’ Bingham, received life sentence. Now inmates in prisons are joining the AB just because they want protection and to belong somewhere. One prisoner say: We have 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Brotherhood 18.2.2014.a different kind of moral and ethical code. It’s a lot more primordial. In your society I may not be anybody, but in here I am.4
The Aryan Brotherhood is described as the most notorious and powerful prison gang with about 20 000 members inside and outside the prison. According to FBI investigations, the Aryan Brotherhood makes up less than 0.1% of overall prison population, but they are responsible for 25% of murders in federal prison system. Their allies are Nazi Low Riders, Public Enemy No.1, Hells Angels and KKK. They are allocated all over the United States, particularly in prisons. But their influence is spread all