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The Texas Department of Public Safety classifies Tango Blast as a "loose affiliation" gang, with "relaxed membership requirements and little to no detectable leadership hierarchy." [ 14 ] The El Paso County sheriff's officials have noted that "there is no known formal organization of the gang on El Paso streets."
The Syndicate is the oldest Texan prison gang. [1] The Texas Syndicate has approximately 1,300 members, the majority of whom are Mexican American males aged between 20 and 40. [3] While the gangs maintains its headquarters in California, there are around 1,000 members in prisons and jails throughout Texas, with many others operating on the outside.
Prison gangs are geographically and racially divided, and about 70% of prison gang members are in California and Texas. [4] Skarbek suggests prison gangs function similar to a community responsibility system. Interactions between strangers are facilitated because you do not have to know an individual's reputation, only a gang's reputation.
Gang members in the organizations refer to each other as "carnal," a slang term for brother. [6] Outside of prison, members would contact imprisoned leaders to verify a status of a person using the name of Barrio Azteca to operate and see if they were in good standing with the organization. Those who were not in good standing were executed. [65]
Joseph T. Hallinan, author of Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation, wrote that "The convicts at the McConnell Unit are among the most hardened in the Texas prison system." [ 4 ] As of 2001 the " administrative segregation " area, with 504 cells, had 504 prisoners segregated by race to prevent gang violence.
(The Center Square) – Members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), continue to expand criminal operations in western states, including in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Dirty White Boys: A white prison gang made up of inmates from Texas, and has a heavy presence in the federal prison system. European Kindred (EK) is a white supremacist prison and street gang that began in the Oregon prison system, [37] and is affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan.
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...