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Nuestra Familia was organized at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California in 1965. [1] In the late 1960s, Mexican-American inmates of the California state prison system began to separate into two rival groups, Nuestra Familia [7] and the 1957-formed Mexican Mafia, according to the locations of their hometowns (the north-south dividing line is Bakersfield, California).
Norteños, affiliated with Nuestra Familia, were prison enemies of the Southern Latinos, who are composed of members and affiliates of La eMè, better known as the Mexican Mafia. While La eMè 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 ...
Leaders of the Nuestra Familia gang, which engages in drug trafficking, extortion and murder inside and outside of prisons in California; arrested as part of Operation Black Widow in 2001; pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 2004. [73] Joseph Hernandez: 02837-748: Cornelio Tristan: 02550-748: Omar Portee
Leader of the Nuestra Familia, convicted of racketeering for controlling the gang from the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison; found guilty due to Operation Black Widow, a federal investigation. [54] Joseph Lombardo: 89305-024: Deceased. Died on October 19, 2019, while serving a life sentence. [55] Consigliere of the Chicago Outfit.
The battalion of 855 women were mostly comprised of Black service members, but also included some women of Caribbean and Mexican descent. In February 1945, the 6888th was tasked with managing a ...
Leader of the Nuestra Familia, convicted of racketeering for controlling the gang from the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison; found guilty due to Operation Black Widow, a federal investigation. [37] Ross Ulbricht: 18870-111: Transferred to USP Tucson. Serving two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years.
The group also has an alliance with the Mexican Mafia (La Eme), as the two are mutual enemies of Black Guerrilla Family. [39] Other rival gangs include the Black P. Stones, Bloods, Crips, D.C. Blacks, and Nuestra Familia. [5] [13] [14] The Brotherhood has associated in criminal ventures with the Hells Angels.
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.