Grann, David,
Annals of Crime: The Brand. David Grann. - New Yorker, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 70, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Annals of Crime: The Brand, Feb. 16 & 23, 2004; pp. 156-171.
"On a cold, damp December morning in 2002, after weeks of secret planning, the United States Marshals launched one of the most unusual dragnets in the organization's two-hundred-and-fifteen-year history....Before long, the marshals had rounded up twenty-nine inmates--all of whom were among the most feared men in the American prison system....The prisoners ended up in a Los Angeles courtroom, where they were accused of being members of an elaborate criminal conspiracy directed by the Aryan Brotherhood, or the Brand. Authorities had once dismissed the Aryan Brotherhood as a fringe white-supremacist gang; now, however, they concluded that what prisoners had claimed for decades was true--namely, that the gang's hundred or so members, all convicted felons, had gradually taken control of large parts of the nation's maximum-security prisons, ruling over thousands of inmates and transforming themselves into a powerful criminal organization." (NEW YORKER) This article examines "how the Aryan Brotherhood became the most murderous prison gang in America."
1522-3256;
Gang violence
Gangs
Hate crimes
Murder
Prison gangs
Prisoners--Attitudes
White supremacy movements
AC1.S5
050
Annals of Crime: The Brand. David Grann. - New Yorker, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 70, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Annals of Crime: The Brand, Feb. 16 & 23, 2004; pp. 156-171.
"On a cold, damp December morning in 2002, after weeks of secret planning, the United States Marshals launched one of the most unusual dragnets in the organization's two-hundred-and-fifteen-year history....Before long, the marshals had rounded up twenty-nine inmates--all of whom were among the most feared men in the American prison system....The prisoners ended up in a Los Angeles courtroom, where they were accused of being members of an elaborate criminal conspiracy directed by the Aryan Brotherhood, or the Brand. Authorities had once dismissed the Aryan Brotherhood as a fringe white-supremacist gang; now, however, they concluded that what prisoners had claimed for decades was true--namely, that the gang's hundred or so members, all convicted felons, had gradually taken control of large parts of the nation's maximum-security prisons, ruling over thousands of inmates and transforming themselves into a powerful criminal organization." (NEW YORKER) This article examines "how the Aryan Brotherhood became the most murderous prison gang in America."
1522-3256;
Gang violence
Gangs
Hate crimes
Murder
Prison gangs
Prisoners--Attitudes
White supremacy movements
AC1.S5
050