America's Most Dangerous Prison Gang: The Aryan Brotherhood

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What started as a small gang of white prisoners in a California state prison in the 1960's is now one of, if not the most powerful prison gang across America, with tens of thousands of soldiers across federal and state lines. Though they're alleged to only have approximately 150 full-fledged members, the Aryan Brotherhood has found ways to dominate prison economies and expand their rackets into the outside world. The Brand, as the Aryan Brotherhood is sometimes called, has morphed from a self-described white supremacist prison gang into an all-encompassing criminal syndicate putting profit and power over their ideological stances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	He was a Boy Scout leader, a church deacon, a husband, a father. He went to a local church.
0:38.1	He was going to the grocery store with us.
0:40.5	He was the guy next door.
0:43.7	But he was leading a double life.
0:46.4	He was certainly a peeping time, looking through the windows, looking at people, fantasizing about what he could do.
0:53.4	He then began entering the houses. He could get into their home,
0:56.9	take something, and get out and not be caught. He felt very powerful. He was a monster, hiding in
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1:30.1	It's 1996 at Marion Federal Prison in Illinois, and an inmate has gotten into some trouble with his own gang, the D.C. Blacks.
1:38.6	Scared they're going to attack him, he seizes on a course of action.
1:42.1	He assaults a white inmate and gets sent to the hole, figuring,
1:45.3	if you're in isolation, you're a pretty hard target to reach.
1:48.9	Way tougher to kill than if you're in Genpop.
1:51.4	The prison, like many others, is divided along racial lines.
1:55.7	And when there's no retaliation for the beating,
1:58.2	a dozen other members of the D.C. blacks, sensing weakness, attacks half a
2:02.6	dozen white inmates in the yard. Things are spiraling. Word of these incidents eventually makes
2:08.2	its way over to ADX Florence, the Supermax in Colorado, America's most notorious and high
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