The Aryan Brotherhood: San Quintin State Prison

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The Aryan Brotherhood is a white supremacist prison gang. It is known to have over 10,000 members in and out of prison. It is also known as AB or the brand, started in the 1960’s in San Quintin State Prison. There were two founders named Barry Mills and Tyler Davis Bingham. It originated to protect the whites against the Hispanics and blacks. But in today’s time The AB is more interested in money, narcotic trafficking, gambling, robbery, and extortion, and even murder. The only way to join is either to kill or to attempt to kill a black or a Hispanic. Once that is done they get “marked for life” which is getting a tattoo representing the gang. The AB have a motto which is “Blood in, Blood out.” The tattoos are a Shamrock
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