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Mexican Mafia

Index Mexican Mafia

The Mexican Mafia (Spanish: Mafia Mexicana), also known as La Eme (Spanish for "the M"), is a highly organized Mexican American criminal organization in the United States. [1]

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ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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American Mafia

The American Mafia (commonly referred to as the Mafia or the Mob, though "the Mob" can refer to other organized crime groups) or Italian-American Mafia, is the highly organized Italian-American criminal society.

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American Me

American Me is a 1992 American biographical crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as a director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano.

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Arizona Department of Corrections

The Arizona Department of Corrections is statutory responsible for the incarceration of inmates in 10 prisons in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence

Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence also known as Florence State Prison (FSP) is one of 13 prison facilities operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC).

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Armenian Power

Armenian Power, also known as West Side AP XIII, AP, the Armenian Mob, or Armenian Mafia is an Armenian American criminal organization and street gang located in Los Angeles County, California.

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Aryan Brotherhood

The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as the Brand or the AB, is a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with an estimated 15,000–20,000 members in and out of prison.

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Azusa 13

Azusa 13 is a street gang based in Azusa in the eastern San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles.

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Black Guerrilla Family

The Black Guerilla Family, or BGF (also known as the Black Family or the Black Vanguard) is an African-American prison and street gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George “Big Jake” Lewis, and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.

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Black Hand (extortion)

Black Hand (Mano Nera) was a type of Italian and Italian-American extortion racket.

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California Division of Juvenile Justice

The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), is a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provides education, training, and treatment services for California's most serious youth offenders.

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Central California

Central California is a subregion of Northern California, generally thought of as the middle third of the state, north of Southern California.

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Correctional Training Facility

Correctional Training Facility (CTF) commonly referenced as Soledad State Prison is a state prison located on U.S. Highway 101, north of Soledad, California, adjacent to Salinas Valley State Prison.

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D.C. Blacks

The D.C. Blacks is an African-American prison gang in the United States whose members are from Washington D.C..

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Deuel Vocational Institution

Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) is a state prison located in unincorporated San Joaquin County, California, near Tracy.

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Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor and director.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a United States federal law enforcement agency.

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Gang

A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.

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Hawaiian Gardens, California

Hawaiian Gardens is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Hispanic

The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

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Informant

An informant (also called an informer) is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency.

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Joe "Pegleg" Morgan

Joseph Morgan (born Joseph Megjugorac; April 10, 1929 – November 8, 1993) was the first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia.

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Mentorship

Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.

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Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans (mexicoamericanos or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent.

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Mexikanemi

Mexikanemi is a gang known as the Texas Mexican Mafia, formed in the early 1980s in the Texan penal systems.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal activities and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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Norteños

Norteños (Spanish: meaning Northerners; Norteñas for females) are the various, loosely affiliated street gangs that pay tribute to Nuestra Familia while in U.S. federal and state correctional facilities.

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Northern California

Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Nuestra Familia

Nuestra Familia (Spanish for "our family") is a criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California.

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Organized crime

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.

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OVS (gang)

OVS (Onterio Varrio Sur and sometimes known as Onterio Varrio Sunkist) is a Mexican-American gang from Ontario, California.

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Pelican Bay State Prison

Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is the only supermax state prison in California.

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Prison gang

A prison gang is an inmate organization that operates within a prison system.

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Prisons in California

The California State Prison System is administered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Adult Institutions, which had 136,000 inmates as of 2014.

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Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.

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Racket (crime)

A racket is a planned or organized criminal act, usually in which the criminal act is a form of business or a way to earn illegal or extorted money regularly or briefly but repeatedly.

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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

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Rodolfo Cadena

Rodolfo Alvarado Cadena (April 15, 1943 – December 17, 1972) was a Mexican-American mob boss and legendary figure in the Mexican Mafia prison gang.

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San Quentin State Prison

San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County.

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Shiv (weapon)

Shiv (possibly from the Romani word chivomengro, "knife"), also chiv, is a slang term for any sharp or pointed implement used as a knife-like weapon.

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Sinaloa Cartel

The Sinaloa Cartel (Cártel de Sinaloa) is an international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime syndicate.

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Soledad, California

Soledad is a city in Monterey County, California, United States.

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Sureños

Sureños (Spanish: Southerners)‍, Sur 13 or Sureños X3 are groups of loosely affiliated gangs that pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia while in U.S. state and federal correctional facilities.

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The Avenues (gang)

The Avenues, also known as Avenidas or AVE's, is a Mexican/Mexican American criminal street gang mostly in Los Angeles County, California.

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Tijuana Cartel

The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana) or Arellano-Félix Organization (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix - CAF) is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana.

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Tracy, California

Tracy is the second most populated city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

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Varrio Nuevo Estrada

Varrio Nuevo Estrada, also known as VNE,Moore, J. W. (1991).

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Voting

Voting is a method for a group, such as, a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion, usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns.

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White Fence

White Fence (also known by the acronym WF) is a predominantly Mexican American street gang founded in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles.

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Whittier Daily News

The Whittier Daily News is a paid local daily newspaper for Whittier, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Mafia

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