Nuestra Familia
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| Founding location | Soledad, California Correctional Training Facility(Monterey County) |
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| Years active | 1968–present |
| Territory | Northern California, Mexico, Washington,Oregon,Idaho,Nevada,Utah,Colorado,New Mexico,Kansas,Texas,Georgia,Florida, USA federal prison system, California Prison System |
| Ethnicity | Mexican/Mexican Americans |
| Criminal activities | Drug Trafficking,Extortion,Racketeering, Murder |
| Allies | Bloods CripsNorteños, Gulf Cartel, Black Guerrilla Family, Northern Structure, Bahala Na Gang 15 Street Locos. Tango Blast. New Mexico Burqenos |
| Rivals | Mexican Mafia, Mexikanemi, Texas Syndicate,Sureños, Peckerwood, MS-13, Fresno Bulldogs, Nazi Lowriders, Aryan Brotherhood, Public Enemy No. 1, 18th Street gang, Southside Locos |
Nuestra Familia (Spanish for "our family") is a criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California. While members of the Norteños gang are considered to be affiliated with Nuestra Familia, being a member of Nuestra Familia itself does not signify association as a Norteño. Some law enforcement agents speculate that the Nuestra Familia gang, which operates in and out of prisons, influences much of the criminal activity of thousands of Norteño gang members in California. The gang's main sources of income are distributing cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine within prison systems as well as in the community and extorting drug distributors on the streets.
Nuestra Familia was organized in either Soledad, California or Tracy, California, correctional facilities in 1968.
In the late 1960s, Mexican-American inmates of the California state prison system began to separate into two rival groups, Nuestra Familia and the 1957-formed Mexican Mafia, according to the locations of their hometowns (the north-south dividing line is near Bakersfield, California.)
Nuestra Familia were prison enemies of the Southern Latinos who comprised La Eme, better known as the Mexican Mafia. While the Mexican Mafia had initially been created to protect Mexicans in prison, there was a perceived level of abuse by members of La Eme towards the imprisoned Latinos from rural farming areas of Northern California. The spark that led to the ongoing war between Nuestra Familia and members of the Mexican Mafia involved a situation in 1968 in which a member of La Eme stole a pair of shoes from a Northerner, only to later be found stabbed to death in Tracy. This event put into motion the longest-running gang war in the state of California.
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