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Day: December 6, 2024

United States v. Arrington: the Aryan Brotherhood

United States v. Arrington: the Aryan Brotherhood

Aryan BrotherhoodAryan-Power Prison GangsDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesNazi-Affiliated Prison GangsPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202406.12.2024

Under the Aryan Brotherhood constitution, members must retaliate in kind for any attack against another member. «If a bro gets killed, whoever…

United States v. Mckinney: the Aryan Brotherhood

United States v. Mckinney: the Aryan Brotherhood

Aryan Brotherhood of TexasAryan-Power Prison GangsDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesNazi-Affiliated Prison GangsPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureSoldiers of Aryan CultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202406.12.2024

The Aryan Brotherhood began in the 1960’s in the California prison system as a means of protecting white inmates from other…

State v. Mitchell: the Soldiers of Aryan Culture

State v. Mitchell: the Soldiers of Aryan Culture

Aryan-Power Prison GangsDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesNazi-Affiliated Prison GangsPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureSoldiers of Aryan CultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202407.12.2024

One of the officers immediately recognized the shirtless passenger as Mitchell, a person the officer already knew to be a…

Campos v. Coughlin: Beads as Gang Membership Identification Symbols

Campos v. Coughlin: Beads as Gang Membership Identification Symbols

Dmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202407.12.2024

DOCS’s revisions were based on its conclusions that there was system-wide use by prison gangs of beads as gang membership identification…

Prison Subculture in Moldova’s Prisons (the CPT)

Prison Subculture in Moldova’s Prisons (the CPT)

CPTDmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesMoldovaPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov06.12.202406.12.2024

13. Moldovan prisons have for decades been plagued by informal prisoner hierarchies as a key feature of prison subculture and the related problem of inter-prisoner…

Fresnecks

Fresnecks

Aryan-Power Prison GangsDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesNazi-Affiliated Prison GangsPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202406.12.2024

The Fresnecks are a white supremacist street gang primarily based in Fresno, California. They have a strong presence in the California…

Aryan Brotherhood Associate Admits to Arranging Violent Crimes from Prison

Aryan Brotherhood Associate Admits to Arranging Violent Crimes from Prison

Aryan BrotherhoodAryan-Power Prison GangsDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesNazi-Affiliated Prison GangsPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202406.12.2024

A man who prosecutors claim was on a fast track to join the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang when he was indicted in…

Johnson v. California: Major Prison Gangs in California

Johnson v. California: Major Prison Gangs in California

Aryan BrotherhoodAryan-Power Prison GangsBlack Guerilla FamilyDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesMexican MafiaNazi Low RidersNazi-Affiliated Prison GangsNuestra FamiliaPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202407.12.2024

The CDC’s asserted rationale for this practice is that it is necessary to prevent violence caused by racial gangs. It…

Prison Subculture in Ukrainian Prisons: Svitlovodsk City District Court of Kirovohrad Region. Сase No. 941/849/21

Prison Subculture in Ukrainian Prisons: Svitlovodsk City District Court of Kirovohrad Region. Сase No. 941/849/21

Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUkraine
yagunov06.12.202406.12.2024

While serving his sentence in the Romenska Correctional Colony № 56, and since 08.12.2017 in the Petrivska Correctional Colony №…

The USA v. Blankenship and Chunn: the Aryan Circle

The USA v. Blankenship and Chunn: the Aryan Circle

Aryan CircleAryan-Power Prison GangsDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesNazi-Affiliated Prison GangsPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUSA
yagunov06.12.202406.12.2024

The Aryan Circle (AC) is a “whites only” prison-based gang. Chunn served as vice president of AC’s “federal system” and as…

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