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Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison
    #17986639 - 03/20/13 08:28 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

At this point, America's notorious prison gang is more devoted to the drug trade than it is to its racist ideology.

Prison is a place where racial hatred is routine, where gangs rule the roost and heroin is the most valuable commodity. “A white person in prison is in deep trouble if he doesn’t have people to stand with him,” one prisoner tells The Fix. “The guards can’t do nothing. All they can do is prosecute the winner.” And there are few bigger winners in the feds than the Aryan Brotherhood.

Despite some high-profile crackdowns against the gang in recent years, its grip on many facilities remains strong. “I just came from USP Lompoc [in Southern California] and the AB is running that yard,” the prisoner says. “The drugs are flowing. They got Atwater, Victorville, Canaan, Hazleton, Florence, Marion, Big Sandy and Coleman on lock. They are all over the system. The feds can’t stop anything.”

The AB is one of the nation’s “big four” prison-born gangs, along with the Mexican Mafia, the Black Guerilla Family and the Nuestra Familia. The “Brand,” as it's also known, is estimated to have over 15,000members and associates nationwide, half behind bars and half on the street. The gang was born in the violent California prison system of the ‘60s, reflecting the racial tensions of the times. “The mentality back then was ‘kill whitey,’” says an old-timer who did time back then. “In the beginning, the AB had one true purpose: to stop blacks and Mexicans from abusing whites. If you weren’t picked up by the AB, you were dead.”

But if you wanted to join, all you had to do—belying claims of a merely defensive purpose—was to kill, or attempt to kill, a black or Mexican inmate. The Brand’s motto was “Blood in, blood out”—meaning once you spilled blood in order to join, the only way you were leaving was in a body bag. The AB’s leaders read Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu, Tolkien and the old standby, Mein Kampf. They touted their white supremacist ideals with tattoos, such as Nazi swastikas and lightning bolts (for the SS), and Celtic and Viking symbols to represent Anglo-Saxon and Nordic roots. The shamrock cloverleaf was a key ink ID.

But the AB long ago subordinated its racist ideology to the acquisition of money. “The leadership became much more interested in power than race and started muscling in on the gambling, extortion and dope rackets,” the old-timer says. As part of its bid to exert control over these prison “industries,” the AB adopted a structure in the ‘80s similar to the Italian Mafia—with a three-man ruling commission and a formal hierarchy, with orders sent down the chain of command. The gang started operating as a full-fledged criminal enterprise. The Brand eventually ran much of the drug trafficking, gambling and prostitution behind the walls, and plenty more on the outside. They use murder or the threat of it to enforce their authority.

The Brand’s prison trafficking operations are legend. Mules smuggle in heroin, marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine wrapped in balloons, condemns or cellophane, either by swallowing up to a dozen a time or by “keistering” them. Black tar heroin is especially profitable and easy to cop from AB’s outside sources. Serving life sentences, often in 24-hour lockdown at Pelican Bay or ADX Florence, AB kingpins still control the flow of drugs into prisons nationwide, by sending out “kites”—coded operational instructions passed through the mail or via bribed prison staff, visits, lawyers or other inmates.

The leaders also order stabbings and murders. Prisoners have been killed for transgressions as minor as making disparaging remarks about the Brand, as court documents show. According to the FBI, gang members constitute under 1% of the total federal prison population but commit up to 20% of the murders inside the system. “They have become a bloody organization that enforce their will through murder and chaos in prisons across the country,” a correctional officer says. “They will stab another inmate in full view of correctional staff. These guys do not play.”

Prison authorities often look the other way when it comes to the lesser evil of trafficking. The Brand’s leaders wield so much control that they effectively serve as powerbrokers to maintain order. “Prison is where these guys live. We only punch the clock,” the correctional officer tells The Fix. “If you are going to spend the rest of your life in prison, why not be an AB member? They live like kings.” That power is maintained largely by drugs. “Selling heroin to fellow convicts generates a lot of money for the Brand,” says the officer. “Several hundred thousand a year from a single prison. And how many yards do they control? You do the math.”

But the violence involved in running the drug trade is increasingly threatening the gang’s dominance, if not survival. A series of federal investigations into the Brand have had the effect of widely publicizing the brotherhood's activities. Some court records from 2007, for example, state that the Aryan Brotherhood sought “to launch a cooperative effort of death and fear against staff and other inmates in order to take over the system.” But even as AB leaders are dragged into court and convicted, the life sentences they often receive are mere slaps on the wrist for men who already know they will die behind bars.

One of the first and most notorious targets of the feds was Michael “Big Mac” McElhiney, who sits, to this day, on the Brand’s governing body. Having been in and out of the California State prison system for years, Big Mac was a long-time Brand member whose body was covered in tattoos—including a shamrock in the middle of his chest. In 1989 he became a federal prisoner serving 21 years and 10 months for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, conspiracy to murder a witness and illegal possession of a firearm. In fall 1994 Big Mac arrived at USP Leavenworth, known as "the hothouse" for its small, sweltering cells, where the Brand’s presence was already strong. Big Mac, already a prison celebrity due to his AB status, was immediately surrounded by a fearsome group on the yard and handed the keys to the white boy car.

“For the whites, anything that we did, we had to answer to Big Mac," the younger prisoner, who was there at the time, tells The Fix. "He likes to have everybody know he’s God.” Big Mac soon complained about the "lack" of drugs on the yard. So he started to canvass the population for vulnerable prisoners: drug addicts and men who were in debt, or simply scared. “He could sway the weaker inmates to have their people bring in drugs,” the correctional officer says. “The visiting room is the main route for drug smuggling into the prison.”

In the visiting room at Leavenworth, prisoners and their girlfriends or wives—and other women, desperate for money—can kiss once when they greet each other and once when they part. A balloon containing two grams of heroin is smaller than a marble and can easily be passed mouth-to-mouth. The prisoner swallows the balloon and later regurgitates it or lets it pass through his body. Those kisses form part of a major entry port, with an estimated 95% of Leavenworth’s drugs entering through visits.


Seth Ferranti is serving 25 years for drug trafficking. This is his first column for The Fix. To learn more about prisoners who are working hard at a commutation, check out straight-a-guide.com. for more of Ferranti's writings, go to gorillaconvict.com.

March 19, 2013

Seth Ferranti
The Fix

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/inside-aryan-brotherhoods-heroin-empire-prison?paging=off


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Simplepowa]
    #17986752 - 03/20/13 08:48 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

These microcosms of society are fascinating, if not perverted from the lack of interaction with the rest of society to help shape them. Different pressures yield different outcomes, as evidenced by this article. They create a class that nearly lives without fear of retribution, since the government has already dealt them the fullest punishment.

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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: cubezoid]
    #17986793 - 03/20/13 08:56 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

I don't believe a word of it.  Prison is where you go for playing with drugs.  There are no drugs in prison.  Just good Christian men awaiting salvation.


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Simplepowa]
    #17986849 - 03/20/13 09:05 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

Cool article. It's pretty awesome that the criminals can run shit like that. :awesome: Goes to show that not everything is what it seems.

Amazing signature btw :thumbup:


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: ConfettiHead]
    #17987036 - 03/20/13 09:39 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

That's a cool article. Written by a guy on the inside too eh? Interesting.

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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: mpd]
    #17987201 - 03/20/13 10:11 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

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mpd said:
I don't believe a word of it.  Prison is where you go for playing with drugs.  There are no drugs in prison.  Just good Christian men awaiting salvation.



I have to assume your being sarcastic lol i did 3 years about a decade ago and smoked weed almost every day, there was plenty of heroin, and even a little meth. some guys even got some ecstasy once (i wouldnt touch it as prison isnt exactly the best place to do ecstasy) they are expensive but there are plenty of drugs in prison. a guard can bring in an ounce of shwag and sell it for damn near a thousand dollars. greatest drug racket in the world. hell while i was in the warden himself got arrested for selling coke. no shit. i remember a chapstick cap full of coke was 80 bucks, a VERY SMALL joint of weed was 10 dollars (and i mean a fucking toothpick, like an inch and a half long) and heroin was something like 100 dollars a hit. you paid with ciggarrets and stamps.... or handjobs.... i had plenty of stamps tho!


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: bryguy27007]
    #17987208 - 03/20/13 10:13 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

The ab are in Ohio prisons. I know a few dudes that have their bolts.

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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: joshisstoned]
    #17987250 - 03/20/13 10:21 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

I did 3 years in the feds. at the time i had dreadlocks so it was pretty scary. they gave me alot of shit at first. the only reason I survived was I was in really good with the dungeons and dragons group (thats right there was a group that played dungeons and dragons) A few of the higher ranking AB members wanted into the group and every so often we would let them play (they sucked alot and drank at the games and were bad news so only every so often). So they were nice to me to try and get in on the games. That being said I could always tell that if I lost that leverage I would probably get stabbed in the shower
looking back on it thats a fucking crazy unbelievable story but I swear its true! as a result i leveled a ranger a paladin 2 barbarians a sorcerer a wizard and a fighter all to level 20+ lol


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Grumpyorc]
    #17987462 - 03/20/13 11:08 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

Sweet. Being locked down would suck in general. Especially forever.....

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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: joshisstoned]
    #17987485 - 03/20/13 11:16 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

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Sweet. Being locked down would suck in general. Especially forever.....



yup, unless you like dick


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Grumpyorc]
    #17987507 - 03/20/13 11:20 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

That sucks about you going back dude. I read earlier about the seven year thing. Keep your head up dude. It will get better.

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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: joshisstoned]
    #17987554 - 03/20/13 11:35 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

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That sucks about you going back dude. I read earlier about the seven year thing. Keep your head up dude. It will get better.



thanks, and ya it does suck. this line from this article sends shivers up my spine
" “A white person in prison is in deep trouble if he doesn’t have people to stand with him,"


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Grumpyorc]
    #17994349 - 03/22/13 10:40 AM (11 years, 1 month ago)

Wow man, crazy stuff, but very interesting to read, and scary at the same time too :frown:

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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Simplepowa]
    #17995163 - 03/22/13 02:14 PM (11 years, 1 month ago)

....looks like The Man's wet dream of divide,conquer, & enslavement is going well.. :highfive:


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Adamist]
    #17998889 - 03/23/13 11:18 AM (11 years, 1 month ago)

"no-human contact" which is exactly what it sounds like is bullshit.  People like Tom Silverstein are locked up on bullshit charges (he killed a couple guys for sure but only after he had been in for more than a dozen years at a place where you HAVE TO kill or be killed) and are basically forgotten about in "clean hell" dungeons.


America is so fucked up and the people living here, the people who support prisons for non-violent people or the people who support this kind of torturous "punishment" despite the rest of the world thinking it to be absolutely revolting and clear mental and psychological torture are the kind of fucked up people that have always lived here.


America is full of racists and people who are horny for "law and order" which is really tyranny and oppression couched in subtle language.  Every new group that gets freed - whether it be women or blacks or mexicans - they join up with the government and perpetuate the EXACT SAME oppressive and tyrannical behavior that their forebears lost their LIVES and FREEDOM for time and again.  It's fucking despicable man.  Mexican cops calling mexicans "wetbacks", female cops talking shit about or abusing girls who are sterotypically dainty, black cops in some jurisdictions being as racist or more racist than the white cops in regards to black inner city people.



The education-indoctrination system that teaches people that the government is good and that the government is great and that killing people for committing crimes and that incarcerating people for the rest of their lives for shit they did as 15 year olds is appropriate is the reason why many people believe what they do.  On top of that you have generally poor education being meted out by authoritarian figures who  for a long time have had the ability to curtail free speech in government schools.  In the 90s and 00s this has developed into outright prison-camp type systems of "schools" where people are regularly drug tested, have to walk through metal detectors, are made to strip, sometimes to the point of their underwear or sometimes even further, so that their bodies may be inspected because they are believed to be in possession of chemicals or plant parts.  In addition you now have cops in schools, called "school resource officers".  Students are arrested REGULARLY instead of put into detention for fighting and given criminal records by the school WHILE in school.

The most heinous part of this is that most recently kids in the south, black kids, are being ARRESTED - granted on "violation" charges, but fully booked, made to sit in a cell, etc. for "OFFENSES" such as writing on a school desk, sagging their pants - a cultural and dress code item that NO ONE has ANY RIGHT to tell ANYONE ELSE what to do outside of contractual obligations like employment -, talking back to or arguing with teachers, being tardy, being absent, etc.

KIDS ARE BEING THROWN IN JAIL FOR NOT OBEYING PRISON RULES IN SCHOOL.  The entire game is to earn more money for people.  It's not just private prisons either  but every step along the way of government, "corrections", "law enforcement" (which they rarely do if you're a bureaucrat or government thug), "criminal justice", lawmakers, etc. etc. etc.


This is a new slave nation.  Slavery 2.0, Jim Crow 2.0, Gulag capital of the world.


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Re: Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s Heroin Empire in Prison [Re: Humility]
    #17999611 - 03/23/13 02:39 PM (11 years, 1 month ago)

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Humility said:
"no-human contact" which is exactly what it sounds like is bullshit.  People like Tom Silverstein are locked up on bullshit charges (he killed a couple guys for sure but only after he had been in for more than a dozen years at a place where you HAVE TO kill or be killed) and are basically forgotten about in "clean hell" dungeons.


America is so fucked up and the people living here, the people who support prisons for non-violent people or the people who support this kind of torturous "punishment" despite the rest of the world thinking it to be absolutely revolting and clear mental and psychological torture are the kind of fucked up people that have always lived here.


America is full of racists and people who are horny for "law and order" which is really tyranny and oppression couched in subtle language.  Every new group that gets freed - whether it be women or blacks or mexicans - they join up with the government and perpetuate the EXACT SAME oppressive and tyrannical behavior that their forebears lost their LIVES and FREEDOM for time and again.  It's fucking despicable man.  Mexican cops calling mexicans "wetbacks", female cops talking shit about or abusing girls who are sterotypically dainty, black cops in some jurisdictions being as racist or more racist than the white cops in regards to black inner city people.



The education-indoctrination system that teaches people that the government is good and that the government is great and that killing people for committing crimes and that incarcerating people for the rest of their lives for shit they did as 15 year olds is appropriate is the reason why many people believe what they do.  On top of that you have generally poor education being meted out by authoritarian figures who  for a long time have had the ability to curtail free speech in government schools.  In the 90s and 00s this has developed into outright prison-camp type systems of "schools" where people are regularly drug tested, have to walk through metal detectors, are made to strip, sometimes to the point of their underwear or sometimes even further, so that their bodies may be inspected because they are believed to be in possession of chemicals or plant parts.  In addition you now have cops in schools, called "school resource officers".  Students are arrested REGULARLY instead of put into detention for fighting and given criminal records by the school WHILE in school.

The most heinous part of this is that most recently kids in the south, black kids, are being ARRESTED - granted on "violation" charges, but fully booked, made to sit in a cell, etc. for "OFFENSES" such as writing on a school desk, sagging their pants - a cultural and dress code item that NO ONE has ANY RIGHT to tell ANYONE ELSE what to do outside of contractual obligations like employment -, talking back to or arguing with teachers, being tardy, being absent, etc.

KIDS ARE BEING THROWN IN JAIL FOR NOT OBEYING PRISON RULES IN SCHOOL.  The entire game is to earn more money for people.  It's not just private prisons either  but every step along the way of government, "corrections", "law enforcement" (which they rarely do if you're a bureaucrat or government thug), "criminal justice", lawmakers, etc. etc. etc.


This is a new slave nation.  Slavery 2.0, Jim Crow 2.0, Gulag capital of the world.



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