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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).
About two-thirds of the Mexican Mafia's 140 members are held in California prisons, which are inundated with illegal cellphones. They use the phones to traffic in drugs, collect money and order ...
Their independence developed in the California prison system during the prison wars of 1984—1985. Back when there was still an allegiance between Norteños and F-14ers, the gang was known as F-14. In 1986 the F-14ers went to war with the Norteños, which led to a violent war in the California prison system known in gang folklore as "The Red ...
Some are fugitives from justice, while others were deported to a country they hardly remember after growing up in the U.S. and serving prison terms. In Baja California, Mexican Mafia members act ...
Mexikanemi: Also known as the Texas Mexican Mafia, is a Mexican-American prison and street gang established in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in 1984. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It functions separately from the original California Mexican Mafia , and members consider themselves primarily tied to the area of Aztlán , formerly Mexican territories ...
Released from federal prison in 2013 after serving 23 years for bank robbery, Munoz returned to his old neighborhood on the west side of Wilmington to find it claimed by Mexican Mafia members held ...
Michael Torres, a Mexican Mafia member who oversaw gangs in the San Fernando Valley and controlled drug and extortion rackets in the Los Angeles County jail system, was stabbed to death in prison.
California's newest state prison, California Health Care Facility, opened in 2013 as part of the state's response to the federal court ruling in Plata v. Brown that the state failed to provide a constitutional level of medical care to its prisoners. Today, CDCR owns and operates 34 state prisons. CDCR additionally staffs California City ...