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The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, [6] [7] the Black Family, [8] the Black Vanguard, [9] and Jamaa [8]) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, and political organization 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.
DMI was founded by Perry Roark, James Sweeney and Brian Jordan in the late 1990s in the Maryland Department of Corrections.Roark was a close associate of the Black Guerrilla Family and received permission from them to start an organization to unite white inmates in the system.
In 2009, a federal indictment under the RICO Act charges that the Black Guerrilla Family gang was active in a number of facilities, including North Branch Correctional Institution, Western Correctional Institution, Eastern Correctional Institution, Roxbury Correctional Institution, Maryland Correctional Institution – Jessup, Maryland ...
Rosenstein secured several convictions against prison guards in Baltimore for conspiring with the Black Guerrilla Family. [27] He indicted Baltimore police officers Wayne Jenkins, Momodu Gondo, Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, and Maurice Ward for racketeering. [31]
Gangs in Baltimore (1 C, 5 P) ... Black Guerrilla Family; D. Dead Man Incorporated; H. Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in the United States; I.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore leaders agreed Wednesday to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who The post Baltimore to pay $6M for police misconduct in case that killed Black man ...
It was founded in 1966 at San Quentin State Prison, California by former Black Panther member George L. Jackson. [25] United Blood Nation: an African American street, and prison gang found on the east coast. They are rivals with the Ñetas and have ties with the Black Guerilla Family.
It became largely self-sufficient in its heyday, an enclave of Black entrepreneurship and achievement in majority-white Baltimore County. The population peaked at nearly 9,000 in the 1950s, but ...