Aryan Brotherhood
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| Founded | In the late 1960s |
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| Founding location | San Quentin State Prison, California, United States |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Territory | Federal prison system |
| Ethnicity | White |
| Membership (est.) | 300 full members, with 5,000+ associates in and out of prison |
| Criminal activities | Murder, assault, drug trafficking, extortion, racketeering, arms trafficking, inmate prostitution, dog fighting |
| Allies | Mexican Mafia, Hells Angels MC, Dirty White Boys, Gambino crime family,European Kindred,Philadelphia crime family,Irish Mob,Juggalos |
| Rivals | Aryan Circle,Outlaws MC, Black Guerrilla Family, Bloods, Crips, Nuestra Familia, Texas Syndicate, Norteños, People Nation, Folk Nation, MS-13, Latin Kings, Ñetas |
The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as the Brand, or the AB, is a white supremacist prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with about 10,000 members in and out of prison. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the gang makes up less than 0.1% of the prison population, but it is responsible for up to 30% of murders in the federal prison system. The AB has focused on the economic activities typical of organized crime entities, particularly drug trafficking, extortion, inmate prostitution, and murder-for-hire.
Organization of whites only at lower levels varies from prison to prison. For example, in the Arizona prison system, members are known as "kindred" and organize into "families". A "council" controls the families. Kindred may recruit other members, known as "progeny", and serve as a mentor for the new recruits. The group has an alliance with La Eme (the Mexican Mafia) as the two are mutual enemies of Black Guerrilla Family.
Like most prison gangs, Aryan Brotherhood members mark themselves with distinctive tattoos. Designs commonly include the words "Aryan Brotherhood", "AB", "666", Nazi symbolism such as SS, sig runes, and swastikas, as well as shamrocks and Celtic iconography.
Until the 1960s, most prisons in the United States were racially segregated. As prisons began to desegregate, many inmates organized along racial lines. The Aryan Brotherhood is believed to have been formed at San Quentin State Prison, but it may have been derived from or inspired by the Bluebird Gang. They decided to strike against the blacks who were forming their own militant group called the Black Guerrilla Family. In the early 1970s the Aryan Brotherhood had a connection with Charles Manson and the Manson Family. Several members of the Family, who were not in prison at the time, attempted to join forces. The Manson Family became split, the Comoites following former Family member Kenneth Como, and the Mansonites following Manson. However, the relationship did not last long as the Aryan Brotherhood considered Manson "too leftist".
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